Senate Bill S985

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring propeller guards on instructional vessels

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks And Recreation Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S985 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2327
Current Committee:
Senate Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks And Recreation
Law Section:
Navigation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §40, Nav L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A8635
2019-2020: S355, A3766, A6719

2021-S985 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring propeller guards on vessels used to instruct children under the age of eighteen.

2021-S985 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S985 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    985
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
   Parks and Recreation
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 10, 11 and 12 of section 40 of the  navigation
 law,  subdivision  11  as renumbered by chapter 391 of the laws of 1971,
 are renumbered subdivisions 11, 12 and 13 and a new  subdivision  10  is
 added to read as follows:
   10.  PROPELLER GUARDS. ALL VESSELS WHICH HAVE A PROPELLER AND ARE USED
 TO INSTRUCT CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE  OF  EIGHTEEN  SHALL  HAVE  PROPELLER
 GUARDS INSTALLED AROUND THE VESSELS PROPELLERS.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03862-01-1

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