Bill Text: NY A05596 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires propeller guards on all vessels.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [A05596 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5596

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development

        AN  ACT  to amend the navigation law, in relation to requiring propeller
          guards on all vessels

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivisions 10, 11 and 12 of section 40 of the navigation
     2  law, subdivision 11 as renumbered by chapter 391 of the  laws  of  1971,
     3  are  renumbered  subdivisions  11, 12 and 13 and a new subdivision 10 is
     4  added to read as follows:
     5    10. Propeller guard.  Every mechanically propelled vessel  shall  have
     6  around  each  of  its  propellers a propeller guard. For the purposes of
     7  this subdivision, a "propeller guard" shall be a  device  which  encases
     8  the  propeller  of  a vessel to prevent the propeller from inadvertently
     9  coming into contact with a person who comes too close to the propeller.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    11  law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06309-01-3
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