House File 208 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY HORBACH Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to the use of certain motorboats on lake Macbride 2 and providing an effective date. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1969HH 82 5 av/cf/24 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 462A.31, subsection 1, paragraph b, 1 2 Code 2007, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 b. A motorboat equipped with any power unit mounted or 1 4 carried aboard the vessel may be operated at a no=wake speed 1 5 on all artificial lakes of more than one hundred acres in size 1 6 under the custody of the department.However, on lake 1 7 Macbride, a motorboat with a power unit exceeding ten 1 8 horsepower may be operated only when permitted by rule and the 1 9 rule shall not authorize such use during the period beginning 1 10 on the Friday before Memorial Day and ending on Labor Day 1 11 inclusively.This paragraph does not limit motorboat 1 12 horsepower on natural lakes under the custody of the 1 13 department or limit the department's authority to establish 1 14 special speed zoning regulations. 1 15 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of 1 16 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. 1 17 EXPLANATION 1 18 This bill removes the prohibition from the Code that 1 19 motorboats with power units exceeding 10 horsepower cannot be 1 20 operated on lake Macbride except by rule of the natural 1 21 resources department and never during the period from the 1 22 Friday before Memorial Day to Labor Day. 1 23 The bill allows motorboats to be operated on lake Macbride 1 24 at all times with unrestricted horsepower at a no=wake speed 1 25 unless the department establishes other special speed zoning 1 26 regulations. 1 27 The bill takes effect upon enactment. 1 28 LSB 1969HH 82 1 29 av:rj/cf/24