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SB305: relative to the operation of personal water craft in marked channels from Hampton Falls to Hampton Harbor.
Bill details
Version history, amendments, and roll-call votes were not present in the imported local bill data.
Sponsors
- Tom Sherman Senate · Dist 24
- Rebecca Perkins Kwoka Senate · Dist 21
- Michael A Edgar House · Rock 21
- Kate Rushford Murray House · Rock 24
- Jaci L Grote House · Rock 24
Topics
Environment and natural resources
Official links
CHAPTER 162
SB 305 - FINAL VERSION
2022 SESSION
22-2885
08/11
SENATE BILL 305
AN ACT relative to the operation of personal water craft in marked channels from Hampton Falls to Hampton Harbor.
ANALYSIS
This bill prohibits the operation of personal water craft at more than headway speed within 300 feet of any marsh land or flat of the Rye estuary and the New Castle back channel.
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Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
22-2885
08/11
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two
AN ACT relative to the operation of personal water craft in marked channels from Hampton Falls to Hampton Harbor.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
162:1 Personal Water Craft. Amend RSA 270:74-c, II to read as follows:
II. No person shall operate a personal water craft at more than headway speed within 300 feet of any marsh land or flat in the Hampton/Seabrook estuary, within 300 feet of the Rye marsh areas to include Witch Creek, Seavey Creek, Berry's Brook, Parson's Creek, Awcomin Marsh, and Rye Harbor Marsh, or within the New Castle Goat Island Back Channel Mooring Field as defined in rules adopted by the Pease Development Authority Pda 500, or that area marked between Shapleigh Island and Goat Island to Red Nun #4 to the Wentworth Bridge, to include the areas around Pest, Leaches, and Clampit Islands, without regard to tide height, or the landing in Hampton Falls to Hampton. Such watercraft shall stay in marked channels. This paragraph shall not apply to water craft operated by police, fire, or other emergency services.
162:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved: June 07, 2022
Effective Date: June 07, 2022