Bill Text: NY A08635 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to requiring propeller guards on vessels used to instruct children under the age of eighteen.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [A08635 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08635-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          8635
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    September 1, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
        AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to  requiring  propeller
          guards on instructional 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 guards. All vessels which have a propeller and are used
     6  to instruct children under the age  of  eighteen  shall  have  propeller
     7  guards installed around the vessels propellers.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    10  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    11  this  act  on  its effective date are authorized and directed to be made
    12  and completed on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13382-01-7
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