What's happening
This bill requires courts to suspend a person's right to operate pleasure vessels if their motor vehicle license is revoked or suspended.
Why it matters
Expands the consequences of losing a driver’s license. If your driver’s license is suspended or revoked due to violations (like DWI), you’ll also lose your ability to operate pleasure boats—meaning penalties follow you across different forms of transportation.
Aims to close a loophole for impaired or unsafe operators. The bill prevents people who are barred from driving cars due to dangerous behavior from simply switching to operating recreational boats, increasing overall public safety on waterways.
Allows courts to suspend vessel registrations. Judges could not only suspend your right to operate a pleasure vessel, but also suspend the registration for your boat, further limiting access and use during the suspension period.
Creates a unified standard for operator responsibility. By linking driving and boating privileges, the law reinforces that unsafe conduct leading to license suspension in one area should affect all forms of motorized vehicle operation, promoting consistent accountability.
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Suspend Boating After DUI
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History
- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3886
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to suspension of a person's privilege to operate a pleasure vessel and suspension of a person's vessel registration
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 1193 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3. Suspension of the privilege to operate a pleasure vessel. A court shall, upon revocation or suspension of a person's motor vehicle license as a result of a violation of this article, suspend a person's privilege to operate a pleasure vessel and may suspend such person's vessel registration in accordance with section forty-nine-a of the navigation law. Following the period of revocation or suspension imposed by the court, a person's privilege to operate a pleasure vessel and vessel registration shall be reinstated.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06518-01-9
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