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May 31st, 2008, 07:28 AM #21Banned
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Re: Is it legal to OC on a Waverunner?
Sure, but then they'd just call in the feds.
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May 31st, 2008, 11:49 PM #22
Re: Is it legal to OC on a Waverunner?
what if you are on a wave runner on the Delaware river between Pa and NJ?
Bye for a while, guard the fort. - My Dad
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June 1st, 2008, 10:16 PM #23
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July 11th, 2008, 03:24 AM #24Member
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Re: Is it legal to OC on a Waverunner?
Got here from that lawnmower thread, but you dredged up an old memory.
I took a boater safety in Yardley the year before PA required Boating Safety Certificate for PWCs (My friend and I thought we would beat the rush that would be coming for the safety certificates the following year).
In the course, they discussed jurisdiction on the Delaware as New Jersey was already requiring Boating Safety Certificate for PWCs and was enforcing its requirements on the river.
They said that by a 1783 Compact between Pa and NJ, the Delaware is a common highway. If you launch from PA and do not anchor or go ashore in NJ, you are supposedly under Pa's jurisdiction regardless of whose side of the river you are on and likewise, if you launch from NJ, you are under NJ's jurisdiction.
I did a quick search and that does seem to be consistent with the Pa statute I found on-line:
71 P.S. § 1805
§ 1805. States to have concurrent jurisdiction
Effective: [See Text Amendments]
71 P.S. § 1805
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes Currentness
Title 71 P.S. State Government
IV. State Boundaries (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 14. New Jersey Boundary Line
>>§ 1805. States to have concurrent jurisdiction
Secondly. That each state shall enjoy and exercise a concurrent jurisdiction within and upon the water, and not upon the dry land, between the shores of said river, but in such sort, nevertheless, that every ship and other vessel, while riding at anchor before any city or town in either state, where she hath last laded or unladed, or where it is intended she shall first thereafter either lade or unlade, shall be considered exclusively within the jurisdiction of such state, and every vessel fastened to or aground on the shore of either state, shall in like manner be considered, exclusively, within the jurisdiction of such state, but that all capital and other offenses, trespasses or damages committed on said river, the judicial investigation and determination thereof shall be exclusively vested in the state, wherein the offender or person charged with such offense shall be first apprehended, arrested or prosecuted.
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1783, Sept. 20, 2 Sm.L. 77, § 1.
HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES
1990 Main Volume
Complementary Legislation:
N.J.--N.J.S.A. 52:28-25.
71 P.S. § 1805, PA ST 71 P.S. § 1805
Current through Act 2008-12
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July 11th, 2008, 06:34 AM #25Grand Member
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Re: Is it legal to OC on a Waverunner?
How about OC while hang-gliding?
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July 11th, 2008, 07:30 AM #26
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July 11th, 2008, 08:36 AM #27
Re: Is it legal to OC on a Waverunner?
My rant was revived. LOL
I called to check my ZIP CODE!....DY-NO-MITE!!!
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