BILL NUMBER: SB 892	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lieu

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 7600 of the Labor Code, relating to ships
and vessels.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 892, as introduced, Lieu. Ships and vessels: safety.
   Existing law specifies safety requirements applicable to the
loading or unloading of a ship or vessel that has a carrying capacity
of 50 tons or more.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 7600 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   7600.   Every   A  person who is engaged
in the business of loading or unloading ships or vessels, or who is
authorized or contracts to load or unload a ship or vessel, or who is
in charge of a ship or vessel while it is being loaded or unloaded,
and  such   that  ship or vessel has a
carrying capacity of 50 tons or greater, shall employ and supply upon
every ship or vessel while being loaded or unloaded, a person over
the age of 18 years to act as signalman or hatch-tender whose sole
duty it shall be to observe the operations of loading or unloading of
each working hatch on  such   that  ship
or vessel, and to warn all persons engaged in the operation of
loading or unloading of any possibility of injury to any of the
articles of which the cargo is composed, or of danger to any person
in or about the ship or vessel while it is being loaded or unloaded.