New Boating Laws

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New laws affecting Shasta Lake boaters and designed to improve safety on California's waterways:

AB 2538-As of January 1, 2001, all children under 12 years of age are required to wear a life jacket while underway in a vessel of 26 feet or less. (Existing law required children under 7 years of age to wear life jackets.) The new law also requires water skiers to wear life jackets, as well as all users of personal watercraft.

AB 2045-As of January 1, 2001, requires any person convicted of a moving violation while operating a vessel complete a boating safety course.

County ordinance 12.24.090 and 12.24.100A Speed Zones - Shasta Lake

As of March 23, 1999 - No person shall operate a motorboat at a speed in excess of five miles per hour within one hundred feet from any shoreline or anchored vessel; no person shall operate a motorboat at a speed in excess of five miles per hour five hundred feet south to five hundred feet north of Antlers Resort, Lakeshore Resort and Tsasdi's Resort boat dock, Lake Shasta.