BILL NUMBER: AB 2395	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Lowenthal
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Gorell)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 422 of the Harbors and Navigation Code,
relating to vessels.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2395, as introduced, Lowenthal. Vessels: perils of the sea.
   Existing law regulates the operation of vessels, as defined, in
the state. For purposes of provisions regulating vessels, existing
law defines the phrase "perils of the sea" as storms and waves,
rocks, shoals, and rapids, and other obstacles, climate changes,
confinement, animals, and all other dangers peculiar to the sea.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in that
definition.
   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 422 of the Harbors and Navigation Code is
amended to read:
   422.  Perils of the sea are  all of the following  :
   (a) Storms and waves.
   (b) Rocks, shoals, and rapids.
   (c) Other obstacles, though of human origin.
   (d) Changes of climate.
   (e) The confinement necessary at sea.
   (f) Animals peculiar to the sea.
   (g) All other dangers  that   are  peculiar to
the sea.