HB4775 Engrossed LRB096 16767 AJT 32067 b

1     AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Boat Registration and Safety Act is amended
5 by changing Section 4-11 as follows:
 
6     (625 ILCS 45/4-11)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 314-11)
7     Sec. 4-11. Engine Lanyard cut-off switch.
8     (a) As used in this Section:
9     "Engine cut-off switch link" means the lanyard or wireless
10 cut-off device used to attach the motorboat operator to the
11 engine cut-off switch installed on the motorboat.
12     "Engine cut-off switch" means an operational emergency
13 cut-off engine stop switch installed on a motorboat that
14 attaches to a motorboat operator by an engine cut-off switch
15 link.
16     (b) No person may operate any motor boat, including
17 personal watercraft or specialty prop-craft, which is equipped
18 with an a lanyard type engine cut-off switch while the engine
19 is running and the motorboat is underway without verifying that
20 the engine cut-off switch is operational and fully-functional
21 and:
22         (1) the engine cut-off switch link is properly attached
23     to his or her person, clothing or worn PFD, as appropriate

 

 

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1     for the specific vessel; or
2         (2) activating the wireless cut-off system.
3 unless such lanyard is properly attached to his or her person,
4 clothing or worn PFD, as appropriate for the specific vessel.
5 (Source: P.A. 87-798.)
 
6     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7 becoming law.