HB 1610 -- Water Safety

Sponsor:  Cooper (155)

This bill prohibits any vessel less than 30 feet long from being
operated within 100 feet and any vessel 30 feet or longer from
being operated within 300 feet of any dock, pier, or occupied
anchored vessel on any lake at a speed in excess of slow-no wake
speed unless the vessel is operated by a member of the State
Water Patrol, a law enforcement officer, or emergency personnel
in response to an emergency call, a law enforcement
investigation, or other authorized law enforcement activity.

Currently, any person who abandons a boat dock and allows it to
float freely without being moored in a lake having at least 950
miles of aggregate shoreline will be guilty of an infraction and
may be fined from $25 to $100.  The bill expands this crime to
include all lakes constructed or maintained by the United States
Army Corps of Engineers, except bodies of water owned by a
person, corporation, association, partnership, municipality or
other political subdivision, public water supply impoundments, or
drainage districts.

Beginning January 1, 2010, any person owning a boat dock on
certain lakes having at least 950 miles of shoreline and lakes
constructed or maintained by the United States Army Corps of
Engineers must display identifying information on the dock.  Any
person violating this provision will be guilty of an infraction
and may be fined up to $25.

Missouri House of Representatives
94th General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Last Updated October 15, 2008 at 3:10 pm