The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-07-22
MOTOR BOAT
REGULATIONS
Fail Text of Congressional Act
in Force July Nineth
THREE CLASSES BOATS
regulation Lights Prescribed-fog Horns
and Bells Required-Life Preserver
Necessary for Each Passenger

.tfantion of our readers who use motor
hoats to the following act of congress,
snproved June 3, 1910, which took
sSeet on July 9, 1910.
An act to amend laws for preventing
collisions of vessels and to regulate
sooipment of certain motor boats on the
nayrable waters of the United States.
Re it enacted by the senate and house
Representatives of the United States
n America, in congress assembled,
thst the words motor boat" where
usad in this act shall include every ves-
al propelled by machinery and not
more than sixty-five feet in length, ex-
cent tug boats and tow boats propelled
by steam. The length shall be measur-
a from end to end over the deck ex-
GLIDING sheer, provided, that the engine,
boiler, or other operating machinery
shall be subject to inspection by the
local inspectors of steam vessels. and
to their approval of the design thereof
on all said motor boats, which are more
than forty feet in length, and which
are propelled by machinery driven by
steam.
Sec. 2. That motor boats subject to
the provisions of this act shall be divid
ed into classes as follows:
Class one. Less than twenty-six feet
in length
Class two. Twenty-sx feet or over
and less than forty feet in length.
Class three. Forty feet or over and
not more than sixty-five feet in length.
Sec 8. That every motor boat in all
weathers from sunset to runrise shall
carry the following lights, and during
such time no other lights which may be
mistaken for those prescribed shall be
exhibited.
(a) Every motor boat of class one
shall carry the following lights.
First. A white light aft to show all
around the horizon.
Second A combined lantern in the
fore part of the vessel and lower than
the white light aft showing green to
starboard and red to port, so fixed as t"
throw the light from right ahead to
two points abaft the beam on their re-
spective sides.
(b) Every motor boat of classes two
and three shall carry the following
lights:
First A bright white light in the fore
part of the vessel as near the stem as
Practicable, so constructed as to show
an unbrOken light over an arc of the
horizon Of twenty points of the com
pass, so fixed as to throw the light ten
points on each side of the vessel, name
y, from right ahead to two points abaft
the0beam on either side., The glass or
lens shall be of not less than the follow
inE'dlmensions:
Class two. Nineteen square inches.
Class three. Thirty -One square inches.
Second. A white light aft to show all
around the horizon.
Third. On the starbOard side green
ile9t so constructed as to show an UNI
broken light over an arc of the horizon
often points of the compass, so fixed
q to throw the light from right ahead |
70 two points abaft the beam on the
Marboard side. On the port side red
yet so constructed as to show an un-
p!oken light over an arc of the horizon
q Yen points of The compass, so fixed
TO throw the light from right ahead
% two points abaft the beam on the
poft side. The glasses or lenses in the
1'o side lights shall be of not less than
Me following dimensions on motor boats
y: Class two; Sixteen square inches
VlSss three; Twenty-Five square inches
Vn and after July first, nineteen
uOldred and eleven. AL glasses or lenses
described by paragraph (b) OF section
@!ee shall be fresnel or fiuted. Inc
slc lights shall be fitted with inboard
Greens of sufficient height and so set
= 70 prevent these lights from being
fsen across the bow and shall be OF MOI
! Than the following dimensions Oh
MOTOR boats Of
Class two, Eighteen inches long:
S'ass three. Twenty four inches long. /
rrovlded, That motor boats as dem,
70 this act, when propelled by san
~ machinery or under sail alone, snail
liza the cOlored lights suitably screen,
lat not the white lights prescribed
y this section.
I Gee 4. (a) Every motor boat unoer
- provisions of this act shall be pro-
sHsd with whistle or other SOUND
Ssu'ucing mechanical appliance capable
- producing blast of two seconds or
.s IN duration. and in the case OF
asn boats so provided blast OF al
n Y two seconds shall be deemed
4 yonged blast within the meaning OF
20 Every motor boat of class, two
tnree shall carry an efficient fog horn.
~ Every motor boat OF class two or
.me shall be provided with an efficient
III which shall be not less than elght
ues across the mouth on board OIL
ssseels Of class three. '
5. That every motor boat SUD-