Sec. 15-130a. Powers of officers re vessel in unsafe condition. - Connecticut Statutes

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Sec. 15-130a. Powers of officers re vessel in unsafe condition. If any officer empowered to enforce the provisions of this chapter, observes a vessel being used without sufficient lifesaving or fire-fighting devices or in an overloaded or otherwise unsafe condition as defined in this chapter or in regulations of the Department of Environmental Protection, and in his judgment such use creates an especially hazardous condition, he may direct the operator to take whatever immediate and reasonable steps that would be necessary for the safety of those aboard the vessel, including directing the operator to return to mooring and to remain there until the situation creating the hazard is corrected or ended.

(P.A. 73-257, S. 25, 27.)

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Sec. 15-130a. Powers of officers re vessel in unsafe condition. If any officer empowered to enforce the provisions of this chapter, observes a vessel being used without sufficient lifesaving or fire-fighting devices or in an overloaded or otherwise unsafe condition as defined in this chapter or in regulations of the Department of Environmental Protection, and in his judgment such use creates an especially hazardous condition, he may direct the operator to take whatever immediate and reasonable steps that would be necessary for the safety of those aboard the vessel, including directing the operator to return to mooring and to remain there until the situation creating the hazard is corrected or ended.

(P.A. 73-257, S. 25, 27.)

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Sec. 15-130a. Powers of officers re vessel in unsafe condition. If any officer empowered to enforce the provisions of this chapter, observes a vessel being used without sufficient lifesaving or fire-fighting devices or in an overloaded or otherwise unsafe condition as defined in this chapter or in regulations of the Department of Environmental Protection, and in his judgment such use creates an especially hazardous condition, he may direct the operator to take whatever immediate and reasonable steps that would be necessary for the safety of those aboard the vessel, including directing the operator to return to mooring and to remain there until the situation creating the hazard is corrected or ended.

(P.A. 73-257, S. 25, 27.)