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Assembly Bill A10278

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires boating safety courses to be completed once every three years

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2021-A10278 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Navigation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§78 & 79, Nav L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A5598

2021-A10278 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires boating safety courses to be completed once every three years.

2021-A10278 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10278
 
                           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 Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the navigation law, in relation to requiring boating
   safety courses to be completed once every three years
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 78 of the navigation law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  BOATING  SAFETY  CERTIFICATES AWARDED UNDER THIS PART SHALL EXPIRE
 THREE YEARS AFTER THE HOLDER THEREOF HAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED A COURSE
 OF INSTRUCTION IN BOATING SAFETY AS PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION.
   § 2. Section 79 of the navigation law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 3 to read as follows:
   3.  A  PERSON PREVIOUSLY AWARDED A BOATING SAFETY CERTIFICATE SHALL BE
 CONSIDERED TO HAVE COMPLETED A COURSE OF  INSTRUCTION  UNDER  THIS  PART
 UPON  PASSING  AN EXAMINATION ON BOATING SAFETY DEVELOPED BY THE COMMIS-
 SIONER.
   § 3. 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.
                                                            LBD13917-01-1

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