The Day on the Lake
A child on a small boat, a stranger who jumps in, and the bar afterwards
A fourteen foot fishing boat, your nine year old in the bow, and the jacket is in the locker because it is hot.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
Boating education and registration, personal watercraft rules, the vessel implied consent section and the higher concentrations, the separate immunities for emergency medical services, and the chapter's other smoking exemptions are not walked here. Nothing on this page says whether a particular rescue was willful or wanton, or whether a particular patio is inside the smoking chapter.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
5 words · tap one for its definition
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Qualified immunityA defense protecting an official sued individually unless the right they violated was clearly established at the time, meaning existing precedent had put the question beyond debate.
- SolemnizedA marriage performed by a person the marriage chapter authorizes to do it. Since the tenth of October 1991 a marriage may occur in Ohio only if it is solemnized that way and otherwise complies with that chapter.
- Implied consentOhio law treats operating a vehicle on a public road as consent to a chemical test of breath, blood or urine when an officer has arrested the driver for OVI.
- Physical controlA separate Ohio offense covering being in the driver's position of a stationary vehicle with the keys or ignition, while under the influence. No movement is required.
- Under wayA vessel that is not at anchor, made fast to the shore or aground. A boat drifting with the engine off is under way, and the child life jacket rule applies while it is.