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Senate Bill S5349

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Authorizes towing a person on water skis with a vessel without an observer under certain circumstances

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks And Recreation Committee

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2021-S5349 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks And Recreation
Law Section:
Navigation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §73, Nav L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6083
2017-2018: S1674
2019-2020: S2985

2021-S5349 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes towing a person on water skis with a vessel without an observer under certain circumstances.

2021-S5349 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S5349 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5349
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 2, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  STEC  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
   Parks and Recreation
 
 AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to observers for persons
   being towed on water skis by a vessel

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  73 of the navigation law, as
 amended by chapter 305 of the laws  of  2001,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  No  person shall operate a vessel for towing a person unless there
 is upon such vessel a person, other than the operator, of at  least  ten
 years  of age, in a position to observe the progress of the person being
 towed. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT A PERSON IN A  POSITION  TO  OBSERVE  THE
 PROGRESS  OF  THE  PERSON  WHO IS BEING TOWED ON WATER SKIS SHALL NOT BE
 REQUIRED IF THE VESSEL IS:
   A. A TOW BOAT APPROVED BY USA WATER SKI, AND EQUIPPED WITH A  WIDE-AN-
 GLE  MIRROR HAVING A VIEWING SURFACE OF NOT LESS THAN FORTY-EIGHT SQUARE
 INCHES; AND
   B. BEING OPERATED BY A PERSON WHO IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE  OR  OLDER;
 AND
   C. BEING OPERATED WITHIN A USA WATER SKI REGULATION SLALOM COURSE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09933-01-1

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