Bill Text: IL HB4775 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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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.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Passed) 2010-07-14 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-1033 [HB4775 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB4775-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB4775 Introduced 1/12/2010, by Rep. Lou Lang SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 45/4-11 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 314-11
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.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Boat Registration and Safety Act is amended
by changing Section 4-11 as follows:
(625 ILCS 45/4-11) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 314-11)
Sec. 4-11. Engine Lanyard cut-off switch.
(a) As used in this Section:
"Engine cut-off switch link" means the lanyard or wireless
cut-off device used to attach the motorboat operator to the
engine cut-off switch installed on the motorboat.
"Engine cut-off switch" means an operational emergency
cut-off engine stop switch installed on a motorboat that
attaches to a motorboat operator by an engine cut-off switch
link.
(b) No person may operate any motor boat, including
personal watercraft or specialty prop-craft, which is equipped
with an a lanyard type 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:
(1) the engine cut-off switch link is properly attached
to his or her person, clothing or worn PFD, as appropriate

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for the specific vessel; or
(2) activating the wireless cut-off system.
unless such lanyard is properly attached to his or her person,
clothing or worn PFD, as appropriate for the specific vessel.
(Source: P.A. 87-798.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.