BILL NUMBER: AB 484	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gipson

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2015

   An act to amend Section 281 of the Harbors and Navigation Code,
relating to navigation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 484, as introduced, Gipson. Navigation rules: meeting vessels.
   Existing law requires that, whenever any vessel, whether a steam
vessel or sailing vessel, proceeding in one direction, meets another
vessel, whether a steam vessel or sailing vessel, proceeding in the
opposite direction, so that if both were to continue their respective
courses they would pass so near as to involve the risk of a
collision, each vessel give right rudder, so as to pass on the port
side of each other.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in those provisions.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 281 of the Harbors and Navigation Code is
amended to read:
   281.  Whenever any vessel, whether a steam vessel or sailing
vessel, proceeding in one direction, meets another vessel, whether a
steam vessel or sailing vessel, proceeding in the opposite direction,
so that if both were to continue their respective courses they would
pass so near as to involve the risk of a collision, each  vessel
 shall give right rudder, so as to pass on the port side of
each other. This rule applies to all steam vessels and all sailing
vessels whether on the port or starboard tack, and whether
close-hauled or not, except where the circumstances of the case are
such as to render a departure from the rule necessary in order to
avoid immediate danger. It is subject to a due regard to the dangers
of navigation, and, as regards sailing vessels on the starboard tack
close-hauled, it is subject also to the keeping of such sailing
vessels under command.