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2018 SESSION
18101538DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 29.1-744.3 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 29.1-744.3. Slacken speed and control wakes near structures.
It shall be unlawful to operate any motorboat, except a
personal watercraft, at a speed greater than the slowest possible speed
required to maintain steerage and headway when within 50 feet or less of docks,
piers, boathouses, boat ramps, or a person in the water, unless such person in
the water (i) is being towed by the motorboat or (ii) is accompanying the
motorboat, provided that such motorboat is propelled by an inboard motor or
a means of propulsion that is [ forward of the transom and ] below
the water line [ and forward of (a) the transom or (b) an integrated swim
platform ] .