Parachute type devices....
Hi Wakeup....
I can see your point. But the legislative intent was clearly to regulate airborne devices that fill with air and "fly" with some degree of user control.
While the tubes in question can get airborne for short periods of uncontrollable flight under ideal circumstances, they in no way represent the professional parachute devices we see occasionally on the lake. The key phrase in the definition is "attaches himself or herself". In a true parachute type device, you are securely attached via a safety harness. On the towables in question, one merely sits astride the device and hangs on, quite literally, for dear life!
A simple additional phrase, such as "and any device advertised or designed to fly above the surface of the water" would suffice in clearly including the devices in question.
Just my .02, but you raise a very good point!
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