Bill Text: IA SF259 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa Senate Bill 259 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act allowing the operation of certain motorboats on lake Macbride at any time. (Formerly SF 126.)

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-02-06 - Subcommittee recommends indefinite postponement. [SF259 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF259-Introduced.html


Senate File 259 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON NATURAL
                                     RESOURCES AND
                                     ENVIRONMENT

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO SF 126)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act allowing the operation of certain motorboats on lake
  2    Macbride at any time.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 462A.31, subsection 1, paragraph b, Code
  1  2 2017, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    b.  A motorboat equipped with any power unit mounted
  1  4 or carried aboard the vessel may be operated at a no=wake
  1  5 speed on all artificial lakes of more than one hundred acres
  1  6 in size under the custody of the department. However, on
  1  7 lake Macbride, a motorboat with a power unit exceeding ten
  1  8 horsepower may be operated only when permitted by rule and
  1  9 the rule shall not authorize such use during the period
  1 10 beginning on the Friday before Memorial Day and ending on Labor
  1 11 Day inclusively. This paragraph does not limit motorboat
  1 12 horsepower on natural lakes under the custody of the department
  1 13 or limit the department's authority to establish special speed
  1 14 zoning regulations.
  1 15                           EXPLANATION
  1 16 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 17 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 18    This bill amends Code section 462A.31(1)(b) to allow
  1 19 the operation of motorboats with power units exceeding
  1 20 10 horsepower at any time on lake Macbride so long as the
  1 21 motorboats are operated at no=wake speed.
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