Public Act 096-1033
 
HB4775 EnrolledLRB096 16767 AJT 32067 b


  
    AN ACT concerning transportation.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Boat Registration and Safety Act is amended  
by changing Section 4-11 as follows:
 



    (625 ILCS 45/4-11)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 314-11)



    Sec. 4-11. Engine Lanyard cut-off switch. 
    (a) As used in this Section:
    "Engine cut-off switch link" means the lanyard or wireless 
cut-off device used to attach the motorboat operator to the 
engine cut-off switch installed on the motorboat. 
    "Engine cut-off switch" means an operational emergency 
cut-off engine stop switch installed on a motorboat that 
attaches to a motorboat operator by an engine cut-off switch 
link. 
    (b) No person may operate any motor
boat, including 
personal watercraft or specialty prop-craft, which is
equipped 
with an a lanyard type engine cut-off switch while the engine 
is running and the motorboat is underway without verifying that 
the engine cut-off switch is operational and fully-functional 
and:
        (1) the engine cut-off switch link is properly attached 
    to his or her person, clothing or worn PFD, as
appropriate 
    for the specific vessel; or 
        (2) activating the wireless cut-off system.  
unless such lanyard is
properly attached to his or her person, 
clothing or worn PFD, as
appropriate for the specific vessel.

(Source: P.A. 87-798.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law. 
  


Effective Date:  7/14/2010