HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 346        FILED ON: 1/9/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2207

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to life saving devices on boats..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Section 5A of Chapter 90B of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended, by inserting at the end thereof, the following sentence:-

Any person on a vessel, under twenty feet in length, that requires a life saving device is required to wear said device at all times during the operation of said vessel.