CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 839Introduced by Senator LairdFebruary 21, 2025 An act to amend Section 70.3 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, relating to boating and waterways.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 839, as introduced, Laird. Small craft harbors and connecting waterways: harbors of safe refuge: definition.Existing law requires each vessel entering and using a harbor of safe refuge to pay the published fees for services rendered while in the harbor and to comply with all other applicable local, state, and federal laws while in the harbor and while using any facilities in the harbor. Existing law defines harbor of safe refuge as a port, harbor, inlet, or other body of water normally sheltered from heavy seas by land and in which a vessel can navigate and safely moor.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the definition of harbor of safe refuge.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 70.3 of the Harbors and Navigation Code is amended to read:70.3. Harbor of safe refuge means a port, harbor, inlet, harbor, inlet, port, or other body of water normally sheltered from heavy seas by land and in which a vessel can navigate and safely moor, as set forth in Section 70.5.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 839Introduced by Senator LairdFebruary 21, 2025 An act to amend Section 70.3 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, relating to boating and waterways.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 839, as introduced, Laird. Small craft harbors and connecting waterways: harbors of safe refuge: definition.Existing law requires each vessel entering and using a harbor of safe refuge to pay the published fees for services rendered while in the harbor and to comply with all other applicable local, state, and federal laws while in the harbor and while using any facilities in the harbor. Existing law defines harbor of safe refuge as a port, harbor, inlet, or other body of water normally sheltered from heavy seas by land and in which a vessel can navigate and safely moor.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the definition of harbor of safe refuge.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 839
Introduced by Senator LairdFebruary 21, 2025
Introduced by Senator Laird
February 21, 2025
An act to amend Section 70.3 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, relating to boating and waterways.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 839, as introduced, Laird. Small craft harbors and connecting waterways: harbors of safe refuge: definition.
Existing law requires each vessel entering and using a harbor of safe refuge to pay the published fees for services rendered while in the harbor and to comply with all other applicable local, state, and federal laws while in the harbor and while using any facilities in the harbor. Existing law defines harbor of safe refuge as a port, harbor, inlet, or other body of water normally sheltered from heavy seas by land and in which a vessel can navigate and safely moor.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the definition of harbor of safe refuge.
Existing law requires each vessel entering and using a harbor of safe refuge to pay the published fees for services rendered while in the harbor and to comply with all other applicable local, state, and federal laws while in the harbor and while using any facilities in the harbor. Existing law defines harbor of safe refuge as a port, harbor, inlet, or other body of water normally sheltered from heavy seas by land and in which a vessel can navigate and safely moor.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the definition of harbor of safe refuge.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 70.3 of the Harbors and Navigation Code is amended to read:70.3. Harbor of safe refuge means a port, harbor, inlet, harbor, inlet, port, or other body of water normally sheltered from heavy seas by land and in which a vessel can navigate and safely moor, as set forth in Section 70.5.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 70.3 of the Harbors and Navigation Code is amended to read:70.3. Harbor of safe refuge means a port, harbor, inlet, harbor, inlet, port, or other body of water normally sheltered from heavy seas by land and in which a vessel can navigate and safely moor, as set forth in Section 70.5.
SECTION 1. Section 70.3 of the Harbors and Navigation Code is amended to read:
### SECTION 1.
70.3. Harbor of safe refuge means a port, harbor, inlet, harbor, inlet, port, or other body of water normally sheltered from heavy seas by land and in which a vessel can navigate and safely moor, as set forth in Section 70.5.
70.3. Harbor of safe refuge means a port, harbor, inlet, harbor, inlet, port, or other body of water normally sheltered from heavy seas by land and in which a vessel can navigate and safely moor, as set forth in Section 70.5.
70.3. Harbor of safe refuge means a port, harbor, inlet, harbor, inlet, port, or other body of water normally sheltered from heavy seas by land and in which a vessel can navigate and safely moor, as set forth in Section 70.5.
70.3. Harbor of safe refuge means a port, harbor, inlet, harbor, inlet, port, or other body of water normally sheltered from heavy seas by land and in which a vessel can navigate and safely moor, as set forth in Section 70.5.