Assembly Bill A5596

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires propeller guards on all vessels

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    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A5596 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts And Sports Development
Law Section:
Navigation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §40, Nav L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A10265

2023-A5596 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires propeller guards on all vessels.

2023-A5596 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5596
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the navigation law, in relation to requiring propeller
   guards on all 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 GUARD.  EVERY MECHANICALLY PROPELLED VESSEL  SHALL  HAVE
 AROUND  EACH  OF  ITS  PROPELLERS A PROPELLER GUARD. FOR THE PURPOSES OF
 THIS SUBDIVISION, A "PROPELLER GUARD" SHALL BE A  DEVICE  WHICH  ENCASES
 THE  PROPELLER  OF  A VESSEL TO PREVENT THE PROPELLER FROM INADVERTENTLY
 COMING INTO CONTACT WITH A PERSON WHO COMES TOO CLOSE TO THE PROPELLER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
 law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06309-01-3

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