Bill Text: PA HB2238 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Providing for personal flotation device requirement.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-10-04 - Referred to GAME AND FISHERIES [HB2238 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2238-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  4426

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

2238

Session of

2010

  

  

INTRODUCED BY BISHOP, REICHLEY, COHEN, READSHAW, VULAKOVICH, HARKINS, MURPHY, BELFANTI, McGEEHAN, MURT, PARKER, THOMAS, BROWN, YOUNGBLOOD, SWANGER AND JOHNSON, OCTOBER 4, 2010

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, OCTOBER 4, 2010  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

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Statutes, providing for personal flotation device

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requirement. 

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Title 30 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

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Statutes is amended by adding a section to read: 

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§ 5505.  Personal flotation device requirement.

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(a)  Requirement.--A driver of or a passenger on a boat shall

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wear a personal flotation device while the boat navigates a

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waterway in this Commonwealth.

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(b)  Penalty.--If a person violates subsection (a), the

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boating safety education certificate of the boat operator shall

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be revoked.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

 


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