California Harbors and Navigation Code 773.6 – An operator, or the operator’s employee or agent, who directs the …
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An operator, or the operator’s employee or agent, who directs the passengers to the life preservers while announcing that the passengers are required for their safety to don them shall be deemed to have complied with Section 773.5, if the operator, or the operator’s employee or agent, or the operator’s employee at least once instructs any passenger who fails to don a life preserver to do so, and if the life preservers are unwrapped, ready to be donned, and stowed in a conveniently accessible place.
(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1049, Sec. 1. Effective September 26, 1983.)
Terms Used In California Harbors and Navigation Code 773.6
- Life preserver: means a life preserver approved and certified by the Coast Guard and capable of providing at least 90 percent of factory-rated flotation capacity. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 773.2
- Operator: means a person owning, controlling, operating, or managing a for-hire vessel. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 773.2
- Passenger: means every person carried on board a vessel other than any of the following:
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