SB 5094-S - DIGEST

(AS OF SENATE 2ND READING 2/19/99)

     Declares that no person shall operate a vessel under nineteen feet in length on the waters of this state with a child twelve years old and under, unless the child is wearing a United States coast guard approved personal floatation device, of the appropriate size, while the vessel is underway.

     Provides that the following circumstances are excepted:  (1) While a child is below deck or in the cabin of a boat with an enclosed cabin;

     (2) while a child is on a United States coast guard inspected passenger-carrying vessel operating on the navigable waters of the United States; or

     (3) while on board a vessel at a time and place where no person would reasonably expect a danger of drowning to occur.