Pennsylvania Code
Title 58 - RECREATION
Part II - FISH AND BOAT COMMISSION
Subpart C - BOATING
Chapter 103 - RULES OF THE ROAD
Section 103.10 - Head-on situations

Universal Citation: 58 PA Code ยง 103.10

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024

(a) When two power-driven boats are meeting on reciprocal or nearly reciprocal courses in a manner that involves risk of collision, each shall alter its course to starboard-right-so that each shall pass on the port-left-side of the other.

(b) A head-on situation shall be deemed to exist when a boat sees the other ahead or nearly ahead and by night it could see the masthead lights of the other in a line or nearly in a line or both sidelights and by day it observes the corresponding aspect of the other boat.

(c) When a boat is in doubt as to whether such a situation exists, it shall assume that it does exist and act accordingly.

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