Connecticut 2011 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB05300 Compare Versions

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1-House Bill No. 5300
1+General Assembly Committee Bill No. 5300
2+January Session, 2011 LCO No. 2675
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4+Referred to Committee on Environment
5+Introduced by:
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3-Public Act No. 11-90
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10+Committee Bill No. 5300
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12+January Session, 2011
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14+LCO No. 2675
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16+*_____HB05300TRA___042011____*
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18+Referred to Committee on Environment
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524 AN ACT CONCERNING THE SPEED LIMITS OF BOATS ON THE MYSTIC RIVER.
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726 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
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9-Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) No person shall operate a vessel in excess of Slow-No-Wake on the Mystic River within the following two areas: (1) Between the entrance to the Mystic Harbor and Red Navigation Marker No. 22, excluding Beebe Cove, where the entrance to Mystic Harbor shall be a line beginning at the southernmost tip of Mouse Island, then east to Red Navigation Buoy "4", known as Whale Rock, then generally northeasterly to Green Navigation Buoy "9" to the northern tip of Ram Island and to the southernmost tip of Mason Point, and (2) from Red Navigation Buoy "26" northward to Green Navigation Buoy "53".
28+Section 1. Section 15-16 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
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11-(b) Any violation of subsection (a) of this section shall be an infraction. The Commissioner of Environmental Protection shall administer the provisions of this section in accordance with chapter 268 of the general statutes.
30+(a) If any vessel, wholly or partly propelled by power, moves at a greater rate of speed than six miles per hour, when approaching or passing, and while within two hundred feet of, any wharf, pier or dock in the city of Hartford between the Bulkeley Bridge over the Connecticut River and the southern limits of said city, or Long Wharf and pier in New Haven Harbor, when any vessel is lying thereat at any berth below the north end of the platform on the east side of the wharf, or the wharf or pier in Bridgeport Harbor known as Mather's Dock, or any wharf, pier or marine railway in Norwalk Harbor, or any wharf in the city of Middletown, or any dock, pier or wharf in the city of New London or in New London Harbor, or in the city of Norwich, or between the cities of New London and Norwich, or on the Eight Mile River in Lyme between the northerly end of the channel at Hamburg Village and the southerly end at the Connecticut River, or any wharf on either side of Mystic River between its mouth at Noank beacon and the most northerly channel buoy north of the Marine Historical Association, or while passing between Branford Point Dock and Sybil's Creek, so called, in the Branford River, the person in command of any such vessel shall forfeit one hundred dollars to the state, and shall also be liable to pay threefold damages to any person whose property is injured in consequence of the violation of the provisions of this section.
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13-Sec. 2. Subsection (a) of section 15-154 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
32+(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, on and after the adoption of regulations by the Department of Environmental Protection pursuant to section 15-121 that establish speed limits for vessels moving on the Mystic River, the speed limit for vessels moving on the Mystic River shall be as established in such regulations.
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15-(a) Any harbor master, deputy harbor master, conservation officer, special conservation officer or state police officer and any municipal police officer, any special police officer appointed under sections 29-18 and 29-19, any town marine officers appointed under section 15-154a and certified by the commissioner for marine police duty and any lake patrolman appointed under section 7-151b may enforce the provisions of section 1 of this act, this chapter and chapter 446k, except that only peace officers shall enforce the provisions of section 15-132a, subsection (d) of section 15-133 and sections 15-140l and 15-140n. In the enforcement of this chapter, such officer may arrest, without previous complaint and warrant, any person who fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter. Failure to appear in court pursuant to such arrest, unless excused by the court or the state's attorney or assistant state's attorney, shall constitute sufficient cause for the suspension by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of the boat registration of the boat involved for not more than thirty days or until the matter is resolved by the court, whichever is sooner.
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17-Sec. 3. Section 15-16 of the general statutes is repealed. (Effective from passage)
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37+This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
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40+This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
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50+ENV Joint Favorable
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