A person may not operate a personal watercraft on the waters of Tennessee unless each person aboard the vessel, or being towed by the vessel, is wearing a United States coast guard (USCG) approved Type I, II, III, or V personal flotation device in accordance with the USCG approval label.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 69-9-502
Flotation devices
Known as the Tennessee Boating Safety Act
The act spans §§ 69–69 (49 sections).
Acts 1996, ch. 808, § 1; T.C.A. § 69-10-502; Acts 2007, ch. 185, § 18.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.