Bill Text: NY A08600 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes towing a person on water skis with a vessel without an observer under certain circumstances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [A08600 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A08600-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8600 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y December 2, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to observers for persons being towed on water skis by a vessel THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 73 of the navigation law, as 2 amended by chapter 305 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. No person shall operate a vessel for towing a person unless there 5 is upon such vessel a person, other than the operator, of at least ten 6 years of age, in a position to observe the progress of the person being 7 towed. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT A PERSON IN A POSITION TO OBSERVE THE 8 PROGRESS OF THE PERSON WHO IS BEING TOWED ON WATER SKIS SHALL NOT BE 9 REQUIRED IF THE VESSEL IS: 10 A. A TOW BOAT APPROVED BY USA WATER SKI, AND EQUIPPED WITH A WIDE-AN- 11 GLE MIRROR HAVING A VIEWING SURFACE OF NOT LESS THAN FORTY-EIGHT SQUARE 12 INCHES; AND 13 B. BEING OPERATED BY A PERSON WHO IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER; 14 AND 15 C. BEING OPERATED WITHIN A USA WATER SKI REGULATION SLALOM COURSE. 16 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11833-03-5