When operating on Lake Champlain, boaters must have their MSD rendered inoperable and all overboard lines disconnected and plugged."
They can require resident boats to do that, but the 33 CFR citation I posted above: no State or political subdivision thereof shall adopt or enforce any statute or regulation of such State or political subdivision with respect to the design, manufacture, or installation or use of any marine sanitation device on any vessel subject to the provisions of this section...
that is not identical to a regulation prescribed under section 4302 of this title makes it clear that they cannot require transient vessels to disable any installed system...that they can only require that it be "secured" using one of the acceptable means described in 33 CFR 159.7 But because none of the "Loopers" are willing to risk going through the hassle of being the test case in court that would prove that, they all cave and disconnect even though no one knows of a single one of 'em who've ever even been inspected. And so another gov't agency successfully moves one small step closer to gov't gaining total control of the people without ever firing a single shot.
They can require resident boats to do that, but the 33 CFR citation I posted above: no State or political subdivision thereof shall adopt or enforce any statute or regulation of such State or political subdivision with respect to the design, manufacture, or installation or use of any marine sanitation device on any vessel subject to the provisions of this section...
that is not identical to a regulation prescribed under section 4302 of this title makes it clear that they cannot require transient vessels to disable any installed system...that they can only require that it be "secured" using one of the acceptable means described in 33 CFR 159.7 But because none of the "Loopers" are willing to risk going through the hassle of being the test case in court that would prove that, they all cave and disconnect even though no one knows of a single one of 'em who've ever even been inspected. And so another gov't agency successfully moves one small step closer to gov't gaining total control of the people without ever firing a single shot.
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