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Originally Posted by lawn psycho
I don't agree with the Court. The education certificat is just that, states you took a test as part of allowing someone to operate a boat.
There is no revocation of taking an education course. It's not a license.
You can debate whether she "deserves" to operate a boat until the cows come home.
This ruling means that the State of NH can use any reason they want to stop you from operating a boat. And, length of revocation is arbitrary.
I don't like slippery slopes and the ruling indicates that there was a least some merits to the case so given a potentially different argument the NHMP would have been over ruled.
See how it works? Once you pass once law then you have to pass 20 more laws to fill endless trap doors. Eventually one of the initiators will get caught in their own trap. Education. Oops, still have issues. Speed limit. Oops, all the same issues still there. Wait! lets pass another law and require something else (in water test).
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This has nothing to do with the boating certificate. It wasn't revoked. What the Department of Safety did revoke was Blizzard's privilege to operate a boat. Their authority for doing so was a provision in state law that has been in place since 1991 - before the boating certificate became a prerequisite for exercising the privilege.