Bill Text: NY A01414 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring individuals renting a boat to take a boating safety course.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-27 - enacting clause stricken [A01414 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01414-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1414 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to requiring individuals renting a boat to take a boating safety course The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 1-a of section 71-d of the navigation 2 law, subdivision 1 as added by chapter 698 of the laws of 1971 and 3 subdivision 1-a as added by chapter 361 of the laws of 2013, are amended 4 to read as follows: 5 1. No livery operator shall knowingly lease, hire or rent a vessel to 6 any person: 7 (a) When the number of persons using the vessel shall exceed the 8 number deemed to constitute a maximum safety load for said vessel, 9 according to its capacity plate or industry-accepted standards. 10 (b) When the manufacturer's rated horsepower of the motor exceeds the 11 capacity of the vessel, making the vessel unsafe to operate. 12 (c) When the vessel does not contain the equipment required by its 13 respective class, as provided by section forty. 14 (d) When such person is not the holder of a boating safety certif- 15 icate. 16 [1-a. Notwithstanding subdivision one of section forty-nine of this17article, a livery may lease, hire or rent a mechanically propelled18vessel, except a personal water craft or specialty prop craft, to a19person who is not the holder of a boating safety certificate if:20(a) the person is eighteen years or older;21(b) the operator of such livery or his or her designated agent, is the22holder of a boating safety certificate, and prior to permitting the use23by such person of the vessel explains and demonstrates to such person by24video or actual in water demonstration the operation of such vessel, and25the use and location of such vessel's safety equipment;EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06358-01-9A. 1414 2 1(c) such person, after receiving the explanation and demonstration2required pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subdivision, demonstrates to3the livery operator or the livery operator's designated agent the abili-4ty to operate such vessel and use the applicable safety equipment;5(d) such person presents genuine proof of identification and age to6the livery operator;7(e) the livery operator or the livery operator's designated agent, at8the time of the leasing, hiring, or renting, records the name, address,9and age of the operator of the leased, hired or rented vessel. Such10records shall be maintained for a period of not less than one year; and11(f) the vessel is not leased, hired or rented to the same person for a12period exceeding sixty days.] 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or 15 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 16 this act on its effective date is authorized to be made and completed on 17 or before such date.