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625 ILCS 45/4-11

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

    Sec. 4-11. Engine 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, 
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:

(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.

(Source: P.A. 96-1033, eff. 7-14-10.)