PRINTER'S NO. 1693
No. 1439 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY DERMODY, PHILLIPS, FARGO, SOLOBAY, WALKO,
WOJNAROSKI, HARHAI, LAUGHLIN, VAN HORNE, ROONEY, SERAFINI AND
SEYFERT, MAY 4, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, MAY 4, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing an exemption from the required boating
3 safety education certificate for certain owner-operators of
4 personal watercraft.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Title 30 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 5105. Personal watercraft boating safety education
10 certificate exemption.
11 (a) General rule.--Notwithstanding any other law or
12 regulation to the contrary, the owner-operator of any personal
13 watercraft who has owned one or more personal watercraft
14 throughout the entire period of time from January 1, 1995,
15 through January 1, 2000, shall be issued a boating safety
16 education certificate by the commission which certificate meets
17 the requirements of 58 Pa. Code § 109.3 (relating to personal
18 watercraft).
1 (b) Exemptions.--In addition to the exemption under
2 subsection (a), the commission may exempt certain persons from
3 having to fulfill the course and exam requirement based on
4 related safety knowledge as acquired through other Coast Guard
5 certification. A certificate shall be issued upon request for
6 the exempted individual.
7 (c) Order to take safety course.--
8 (1) Notwithstanding subsection (a) or (b), the
9 commission shall order a person to successfully complete a
10 course in personal watercraft safety in the following
11 situations:
12 (i) Where a person is convicted of two water safety
13 violations within any two-year period.
14 (ii) Where a person is convicted of violating any of
15 the following:
16 (A) Section 5501(a) or (b) (relating to reckless
17 and negligent operation of watercraft).
18 (B) Section 5502 (relating to operating
19 watercraft under influence of alcohol or controlled
20 substance).
21 (2) An order of the commission under paragraph (1) shall
22 be in addition to any other sentence imposed by the court.
23 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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