Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1612
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/22/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation
       (Rader) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 32 - 33
    4  and insert:
    5  noncriminal infraction, punishable as provided in s. 327.73.
    6         Section 3. Paragraph (cc) is added to subsection (1) of
    7  section 327.73, Florida Statutes, to read:
    8         327.73 Noncriminal infractions.—
    9         (1) Violations of the following provisions of the vessel
   10  laws of this state are noncriminal infractions:
   11         (cc) Section 327.391(5), relating to airboat operation
   12  requirements, for which the civil penalty is up to a maximum of
   13  $500.
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   15  Any person cited for a violation of any provision of this
   16  subsection shall be deemed to be charged with a noncriminal
   17  infraction, shall be cited for such an infraction, and shall be
   18  cited to appear before the county court. The civil penalty for
   19  any such infraction is $50, except as otherwise provided in this
   20  section. Any person who fails to appear or otherwise properly
   21  respond to a uniform boating citation shall, in addition to the
   22  charge relating to the violation of the boating laws of this
   23  state, be charged with the offense of failing to respond to such
   24  citation and, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor of the
   25  second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s.
   26  775.083. A written warning to this effect shall be provided at
   27  the time such uniform boating citation is issued.
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   29  And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete line 7
   31  and insert:
   32         providing a penalty; amending s. 327.73, F.S.;
   33         providing a penalty for violation of airboat operation
   34         requirements; providing an effective date.