HB 1046 - DIGEST

(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 1/16/98)

     Provides that no person may operate or permit to be operated a vessel under nineteen feet in length unless each person nine years of age or younger on the vessel wears a United States coast guard-approved personal flotation device.

     Declares that enforcement of this act by law enforcement officers may be accomplished only as a secondary action if a vessel has been detained for a suspected violation of chapter 88.12 RCW or some other offense.