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Assembly Bill A10265

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires propeller guards on all vessels

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2021-A10265 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts And Sports Development
Law Section:
Navigation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §40, Nav L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A5596
2025-2026: A4060

2021-A10265 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires propeller guards on all vessels.

2021-A10265 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10265
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
   read  once  and  referred to the Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and
   Sports Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to  requiring  propeller
   guards on all vessels
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivisions 10, 11 and 12 of section 40 of the  navigation
 law,  subdivision  11  as renumbered by chapter 391 of the laws of 1971,
 are renumbered subdivisions 11, 12 and 13 and a new  subdivision  10  is
 added to read as follows:
   10.  PROPELLER GUARD.   EVERY MECHANICALLY PROPELLED VESSEL SHALL HAVE
 AROUND EACH OF ITS PROPELLERS A PROPELLER GUARD.  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF
 THIS  SUBDIVISION,  A  "PROPELLER GUARD" SHALL BE A DEVICE WHICH ENCASES
 THE PROPELLER OF A VESSEL TO PREVENT THE  PROPELLER  FROM  INADVERTENTLY
 COMING INTO CONTACT WITH A PERSON WHO COMES TOO CLOSE TO THE PROPELLER.
   §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13920-01-1

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