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Committee reviews boating law cleanup bill to eliminate free decal, raise accident reporting threshold
Summary
A cleanup bill would remove the three-year validation decal process for boats, raise the accident reporting threshold from $100 to $2,000 and repeal an inactive boating advisory council. Fish, Wildlife & Parks told lawmakers the changes align state rules with federal guidance from the U.S. Coast Guard.
Representative Kelly, sponsor of House Bill 468, described the measure as a cleanup bill for the Fish, Wildlife & Parks boating statutes. The sponsor said the bill updates boat validation procedures, aligns Montana’s passing and right-of-way language with other states and federal waterways, raises the damage threshold for boating accident reports from $100 to $2,000, and repeals a boating advisory committee that has not functioned for several years.
Phil Kilbreath, boating law administrator and enforcement division staff at Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, testified that…
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