Bill Text: IL HB4775 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: Amends the Boat Registration and Safety Act. Provides that no person may operate any motorboat equipped with an engine cut-off switch while the engine is running and the motorboat is underway without verifying that the engine cut-off switch is operational and fully-functional and attaching the engine cut-off switch link to the operator or activating the wireless cut-off system (rather than only requiring that a lanyard engine cut-off switch be attached to the operator on motorboats equipped with a lanyard cut-off switch). Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-07-14 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-1033 [HB4775 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-HB4775-Enrolled.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Boat Registration and Safety Act is amended | ||||||
| 5 | by changing Section 4-11 as follows:
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| 6 | (625 ILCS 45/4-11) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 314-11)
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| 7 | Sec. 4-11. Engine Lanyard cut-off switch. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) As used in this Section: | ||||||
| 9 | "Engine cut-off switch link" means the lanyard or wireless | ||||||
| 10 | cut-off device used to attach the motorboat operator to the | ||||||
| 11 | engine cut-off switch installed on the motorboat. | ||||||
| 12 | "Engine cut-off switch" means an operational emergency | ||||||
| 13 | cut-off engine stop switch installed on a motorboat that | ||||||
| 14 | attaches to a motorboat operator by an engine cut-off switch | ||||||
| 15 | link. | ||||||
| 16 | (b) No person may operate any motor
boat, including | ||||||
| 17 | personal watercraft or specialty prop-craft, which is
equipped | ||||||
| 18 | with an a lanyard type engine cut-off switch while the engine | ||||||
| 19 | is running and the motorboat is underway without verifying that | ||||||
| 20 | the engine cut-off switch is operational and fully-functional | ||||||
| 21 | and: | ||||||
| 22 | (1) the engine cut-off switch link is properly attached | ||||||
| 23 | to his or her person, clothing or worn PFD, as
appropriate | ||||||
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| 1 | for the specific vessel; or | ||||||
| 2 | (2) activating the wireless cut-off system. | ||||||
| 3 | unless such lanyard is
properly attached to his or her person, | ||||||
| 4 | clothing or worn PFD, as
appropriate for the specific vessel.
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| 5 | (Source: P.A. 87-798.)
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| 6 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 7 | becoming law.
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