HB 1936.E - DIGEST

(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

     Provides that the abutting residential owner to state-owned shorelands, tidelands, or related beds of navigable waters, may anchor to buoys without charge if the boat that is anchored is used for private recreational purposes and the area is not subject to prior rights.  Buoys cannot be sold or leased separately from the upland residence.  The mooring buoy cannot be used for commercial, transient, or residential use.  This permission is subject to the boat not posing a hazard or obstruction to navigation or fishing or habitat degradation.

     Declares that nothing in this act authorizes a boat owner to abandon a vessel at a buoy or elsewhere.