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Originally Posted by cowisl
The last thing we need are more laws that wont be properly enforced.
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CI,
Why the big objection to a law that won't be enforced? If it won't be enforced, what harm can it do you? I don't buy the argument that you all are afraid of wasting the legislature's time or a few sheets of paper passing and printing up a meaningless law. The legislature is going to be in Concord next month anyway, so its not like they have to create a special session over this. And there will surely be other new laws next year anyway, so typing in a few extra lines before the revised statutes go out for printing is not going to add any real expense. So what's the big whoop?
If the boat speeds can't be measured, no citations will be issued and this will have only been a waste of the supporters' time...no skin off your back...a little off mine. Or if MP can't defend their measurements in court, the first citations they do issue will be thrown out and the law will quickly become a non-issue. So why all the fuss?
I don't believe HB162 would be ineffective, but I have to question the legitimacy of that argument by the opposers. We propose and pass laws every year in this state that are ineffective or silly. Few object so vociferously as they are doing here. Rep Currier, a strong HB162 opponent, last year submitted a bill to annex Killington Vermont (seriously). ****
If this law was not going to have any effect, I find it very hard to believe that you all would be objecting so loudly.