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Originally Posted by KonaChick

HB 224: Requires anyone going out past a swim line or more than 150' from shore has to wear a colored swim cap or be accompanied by a boat that displays a simmer's flag. "This allow boaters to see and identify swimmers in open water," wrote DEMOCRATIC PAUL INGERSOLL who suggested a red cap be worn by the swimmer, although the color and form would be left up to the agency rulemaking. Sunapee DEMOCRATIC REP. SUZANNE GOTTLING sponsored the bill. The House Transportation Committee unimanously endorsed it, although the committee reduced it from applying on all lakes in the state. The mandate would only apply to the state's largest water bodies: lakes Newfound, Ossipee, Squam, Sunapee, WINNIPESAUKEE and Winnisquam.

I will be on my dock selling red swim caps for $50 a cap to any interested parties. WHO elected these people?!?!?

KonaChick-you are famous!

The front page of The Citizen has an article about HB224 and they have your quote and they mention other discussions on this thread as well!
http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll...893/-1/CITIZEN

On winnipesaukee.com, one writer mused about being on her dock this year and selling red swim caps for $50 a piece. Several other writers opined that lawmakers should be spending their time on said economic crisis while one asked whether violators would be listed in The Citizen police blotter and have their court proceedings reported upon.

There was also a post from a writer who said that he has witnessed watercraft violate the proximity restrictions to the shore and other boats but he, too, expressed concerns about enforceability, noting, however, that there were other laws on the books with dubious enforceability.