Bill Text: WV HB2730 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to rules governing the operation of motor boats on lakes
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-21 - To House Natural Resources [HB2730 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2011-HB2730-Introduced.html
(By Delegates Rodighiero, Butcher, Stowers,
Shaver, Crosier and Talbott)
[Introduced January 21, 2011; referred to the
Committee on Natural Resources then the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §20-7-22 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to rules governing the operation of motorboats on lakes; and authorizing the use of motors exceeding nine horsepower.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §20-7-22 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 7. LAW ENFORCEMENT, MOTORBOATING, LITTER.
§20-7-22. General rules
The director
(a) General rules
(b) Special rules
(c) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, code or existing rule or local rule to the contrary, the director shall prescribe rules permitting the use of motors on motorboats that are larger than nine horsepower to be used on lakes in the state, if they are otherwise operating according to navigation rules, including operating at a slow or no-wake speed within one hundred feet of an anchored or moored vessel, shoreline, dock, pier, swim float, marked swim areas, swimmers, surfers, persons engaged in angling, any manually powered vessel or personal watercraft.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the use of motors exceeding nine horsepower in the operation of motorboats on lakes.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.