Bill > A5617

Introduced Session

This bill would require certain property owners to install Type IV personal flotation devices at each lake, pond, or river at which swimming, boating, or ice-skating is permitted. A Type IV personal flotation device is a buoyant object--such as a cushion or ring--that is meant to be thrown to a conscious person in the water. Specifically, the bill would apply to campgrounds, common interest communities, hotels, mobile home parks, private lake, river, or bay associations, private community lake, river, or bay associations, private marinas, and retirement communities, as those terms are defined in section 1 of P.L.1991, c.135 (C.26:4A-4). The bill would also require the Department of Environmental Protection, and counties and municipalities, to install a Type IV personal flotation device at each lake, pond, or river located in a public park or State forest at which swimming, boating, or ice-skating is permitted. The bill would allow counties and municipalities to draw on funds in their respective "Open Space, Recreation, Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Funds" in order to pay for the flotation devices and installation costs.

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Brian Bergen (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee (on 05/12/2021)