Senate File 145 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  PUTNEY

                                       (COMPANION TO LSB 1969HH BY
                                        HORBACH)


    Passed Senate,  Date               Passed House, 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 1969XS 82
  5 av/cf/24

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  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 1969XS 82
  1 29 av:rj/cf/24