Senate File 2143

                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  COMMITTEE ON
                                           NATURAL RESOURCES
                                           AND ENVIRONMENT

                                       (SUCCESSOR TO SF 2040)


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act requiring certain children to wear personal flotation
  2    devices while aboard certain vessels and making a penalty
  3    applicable.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  Section 462A.12, Code Supplement 2003, is
  1  2 amended by adding the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  14.  A person shall not operate a vessel
  1  4 on the waters of this state under the jurisdiction of the
  1  5 commission unless every person on board the vessel who is
  1  6 under thirteen years of age is wearing a type I, II, III, or V
  1  7 personal flotation device that is approved by the United
  1  8 States coast guard while the vessel is under way.  This
  1  9 subsection does not apply when the person under thirteen years
  1 10 of age is in a part of the vessel that is fully enclosed,
  1 11 where such enclosure will prevent such person from falling out
  1 12 of or being thrown from the vessel.
  1 13                           EXPLANATION
  1 14    This bill adds a new provision to Code section 462A.12
  1 15 concerning prohibited operations of certain vessels.  The bill
  1 16 provides that a person shall not operate a vessel on the
  1 17 waters of this state under the jurisdiction of the natural
  1 18 resource commission unless every person on board who is under
  1 19 13 years of age is wearing a type I, II, III, or V personal
  1 20 flotation device that is approved by the United States coast
  1 21 guard while the vessel is under way.  The new provision does
  1 22 not apply when the person under 13 years of age is in a part
  1 23 of the vessel that is fully enclosed, where the enclosure will
  1 24 prevent that person from falling out of or being thrown from
  1 25 the vessel.
  1 26    For a violation of this provision, there is a scheduled
  1 27 fine of $25, pursuant to Code section 805.8B, subsection 1,
  1 28 paragraph "c".
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