Senator GROOMS proposed the following amendment (457R003.KMM.LKG):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, on page 1, by striking lines 39 through 42, and on page 2, by striking lines 1 through 3 and inserting:

/ (b)operate a personal watercraft, specialty propcraft, or vessel while upon the all other waters of this State in excess of idle speed within 50 one hundred feet of a moored or an anchored vessel, wharf, dock, bulkhead, pier, or a person in the water, or within 100 one hundred yards of the Atlantic Ocean coast line. The prohibitions contained in this item (6) do not apply to an unoccupied, moored vessel or watercraft or to a person behind a vessel or watercraft who is on water skis or a floating device with the permission of the operator of the vessel or watercraft;" /