Thursday, December 4, 2008
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Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.
SB765: Water safety enforcement; provide enhanced enforcement effort on Smith Mountain Lake in summer.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 29.1-739.2 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 29.1-739.2. Conservation police officers to patrol lakes.
The Department shall have at least one
conservation police officer whose primary responsibility shall be to patrol an
enhanced enforcement effort that is commensurate
with the level of boating activity during the daylight
hours from Memorial Day through Labor Day in the waters of those
Virginia lakes that (i) are of a size comparable to or greater than Smith
Mountain Lake and (ii) have a comparable number of reported boating accidents
during the last five years as Smith Mountain Lake.
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