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 1        AN ACT in relation to vehicles.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.   The  Boat  Registration  and  Safety Act is
 5    amended by changing Section 5-14 as follows:

 6        (625 ILCS 45/5-14) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 315-9)
 7        Sec. 5-14.  Water Skiing.
 8        A.  No person may operate a motorboat that has in tow  or
 9    is  otherwise assisting a person on water skis, an aquaplane,
10    or a similar contrivance in or upon any waterway, unless  the
11    motorboat  has  a  capacity  of  at  least  3  persons and is
12    occupied by at least 2 competent persons.
13        A-1.  A person may not operate a motorboat  that  has  in
14    tow  or  is  otherwise  assisting  a person on water skis, an
15    aquaplane, or a similar contrivance in or upon any  waterway,
16    unless there is in the motorboat a person, in addition to the
17    operator, in a position to observe the progress of the person
18    being  towed,  unless  the  motorboat  is equipped with a ski
19    mirror approved by the  Department,  mounted  in  a  location
20    inside  the  motorboat  allowing  the operator to observe the
21    progress of the person being  towed  while  also  safely  and
22    legally  operating  the  motorboat.  The mirror shall be of a
23    type that recurves and reflects 180 degrees  of  vision.  The
24    reflecting  portion  of  the  mirror  must  be no less than 3
25    inches in width and 8 inches in length.
26        The Director of Natural Resources must  adopt  rules  for
27    implementing this subsection A-1.
28        B.  No  person  may  operate a motorboat having in tow or
29    otherwise be assisting a person on water skis,  aquaplane  or
30    similar  contrivance  from  the period of one-half hour after
31    sunset to one-half hour before sunrise. This paragraph B does
 
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 1    not apply to motorboats used in  duly  authorized  water  ski
 2    tournaments,  competitions,  exhibitions  or  trials therefor
 3    where adequate lighting is provided.
 4        C.  All persons operating a motorboat having  in  tow  or
 5    otherwise  assisting  a  person  on  water skis, aquaplane or
 6    similar contrivance, must be careful  and  prudent  in  their
 7    operation  and keep at a reasonable distance from persons and
 8    property so as not to endanger the life or  property  of  any
 9    person.
10        D.  No  person  may operate or manipulate any vessel, tow
11    rope or other device by which the direction  or  location  of
12    water  skis,  aquaplane, or similar device may be affected or
13    controlled in  such  a  way  as  to  cause  the  water  skis,
14    aquaplane,  or  similar  device,  or  any  persons thereon to
15    collide with or strike against any person or  object,  except
16    ski   jumps,   buoys   and  like  objects  normally  used  in
17    competitive or recreational skiing.
18    (Source: P.A. 90-412, eff. 1-1-98.)