Ted Lieu
- Democratic
Author
Existing law makes it an infraction with a minimum $500 fine and maximum $3,000 fine for a person to abandon a vessel upon a public waterway or public or private property without the express or implied consent of the owner or person in lawful possession or control of the property, except for the urgent and immediate concern for the safety of those aboard the vessel. Existing law provides that 80% of the moneys collected as fines shall be deposited in the Abandoned Watercraft Abatement Fund. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys in the fund may be used for grants to be awarded by the Department of Boating and Waterways to local agencies for the abatement and removal of abandoned, wrecked, and dismantled vessels, or parts of those vessels. This bill would increase the minimum fine to $1,000. The bill would also allow the moneys in the fund to be used for the abatement and removal of a hulk, derelict, wreck, or parts of any ship, or other watercraft sunk, beached, or allowed to remain in an unseaworthy or dilapidated condition upon municipal or other public corporation property, and for the disposal of a surrendered vessel, as defined. This bill would prohibit the state from assuming liability for any injuries or damages to a person or entity, public or private, connected to or resulting from the processing or disposal of a surrendered vessel. These changes would be repealed as of January 1, 2014. Existing law authorizes wrecked property that is an unseaworthy derelict or hulk, or abandoned property removed from a navigable waterway, as specified, to be sold or otherwise disposed of by the public agency that removed or caused the removal of the property, subject to specified conditions, including that the property has been appraised by disinterested persons, and has an estimated value of less than $2,000. This bill would, until January 1, 2014, except from these specified conditions the removal and sale or disposition of a surrendered vessel, as defined. The bill would require the Department of Boating and Waterways to track the number of surrendered vessels accepted by a public agency that disposes of those vessels using grant funds from the Abandoned Watercraft Abatement Fund from January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2013, inclusive, and the total amount of expenditure from that fund for surrendered vessels during the same period. The bill would require the department to report that information to the Assembly Committee on Transportation and the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water with any recommendations for revising or continuing the use of fund moneys for those purposes.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 416, Statutes of 2009.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and to the Governor at 1 p.m.
Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3185.)
Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3152.)
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2209.)
Read second time. To third reading.
Read third time, amended. To second reading.
Read second time. To third reading.
(received by desk August 28, 2009 pursuant to JR61(a)(11))
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 27).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 7).
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 23).
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1832.)
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28).
Read second time. To third reading.
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 23).
From printer. May be heard in committee February 28.
(Corrected January 29.)
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB166 | HTML |
| 01/28/09 - Introduced | |
| 07/14/09 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/17/09 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/02/09 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/11/09 - Enrolled | |
| 10/11/09 - Chaptered |
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