CHAPTER 508

An Act to require persons offering boats for rent on certain lakes to pro-
wide life preservers for passengers therein; and to provide penalties.

[H 652]
Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to regularly offer a boat
or boats for rent for use on the waters of any natural or artificial lake in
this State having an area in excess of one hundred acres unless such person
shall provide, for the use of each passenger in each such boat, a vest-type
life preserver adequate to support such passenger in water for a period of
at least twenty-four hours.

§ 2. Any person violating this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and punished accordingly.