Bill Text: NY A03215 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3215 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires anyone convicted of a watercraft-related alcohol-related offense to complete a boating safety course.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-10 - reported referred to codes [A03215 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03215-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3215
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in  relation  to  requiring  certain
          persons  to  complete a boating safety course prior to operating water
          craft
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 49-b of the navigation law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
     3    12. Boating safety course. Where a person has been found to have oper-
     4  ated a vessel after having consumed alcohol in violation of this section
     5  the hearing officer shall, in addition to any  other  penalties  invoked
     6  under  this  section,  require  such person to complete a boating safety
     7  course of the state, U.S. Power Squadrons or U.S. Coast Guard  Auxiliary
     8  and  show  proof  of successful completion of such course to the hearing
     9  officer or to the commissioner of motor vehicles.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    11  have  become  a  law and shall apply to violations committed on or after
    12  such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06995-01-9