Changes to the California Life Jacket PWC Boating Law
Monday, Nov. 22nd 2010 6:01 AM
As of this year, the California boating law now requires all children under the age of 13 to wear a U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jacket. (Used to be “under age 12”.)
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