Bill Text: NY A08062 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the wearing of flotation devices when underway on pleasure vessels less than twenty-one feet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [A08062 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08062-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8062

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 31, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  navigation  law,  in relation to the wearing of
          personal flotation devices when underway on pleasure vessels less than
          twenty-one feet

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 40 of the naviga-
     2  tion  law,  as  added  by chapter 115 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (e) No owner or operator of a pleasure  vessel  less  than  twenty-one
     5  feet, including rowboats, canoes, and kayaks shall permit its operation,
     6  [between November first and May first,] unless each person on board such
     7  vessel is wearing a securely fastened United States Coast Guard approved
     8  wearable  personal  flotation  device  of  an appropriate size when such
     9  vessel is underway.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11816-02-9