HB4775 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB4775

Introduced 1/12/2010, by Rep. Lou Lang

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

625 ILCS 45/4-11

from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 314-11

Amends the Boat Registration and Safety Act. Provides that no person may operate any motorboat equipped with an engine cut-off switch while the engine is running and the motorboat is underway without verifying that the engine cut-off switch is operational and fully-functional and attaching the engine cut-off switch link to the operator or activating the wireless cut-off system (rather than only requiring that a lanyard engine cut-off switch be attached to the operator on motorboats equipped with a lanyard cut-off switch). Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning transportation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Boat Registration and Safety Act is amended by changing Section 4-11 as follows:

(625 ILCS 45/4-11) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 314-11)

Sec. 4-11. Engine Lanyard cut-off switch.

(a) As used in this Section:

"Engine cut-off switch link" means the lanyard or wireless cut-off device used to attach the motorboat operator to the engine cut-off switch installed on the motorboat.

"Engine cut-off switch" means an operational emergency cut-off engine stop switch installed on a motorboat that attaches to a motorboat operator by an engine cut-off switch link.

(b) No person may operate any motor boat, including personal watercraft or specialty prop-craft, which is equipped with an a lanyard type engine cut-off switch while the engine is running and the motorboat is underway without verifying that the engine cut-off switch is operational and fully-functional and:

(1) the engine cut-off switch link is properly attached to his or her person, clothing or worn PFD, as appropriate for the specific vessel; or

(2) activating the wireless cut-off system.

unless such lanyard is properly attached to his or her person, clothing or worn PFD, as appropriate for the specific vessel.

(Source: P.A. 87-798.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.