STATE OF NEW YORK
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8635
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
September 1, 2017
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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.
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