48:8-11 - Stopping engine while discharging passengers into small boats; penalty - New Jersey Statutes

48:8-11.  Stopping engine while discharging passengers into small boats; penalty
    No passenger on any steamboat navigating the waters within the jurisdiction  of this state shall be put into any small boat for the purpose of being landed  until the engine of the steamboat is stopped.  The engine shall not be again  started until the small boat be at least twenty yards from the steamboat, or  shall have reached the landing place if that be within said distance.

    The master or other person having charge of a steamboat who shall violate this section shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars.

    This section shall not extend to any case where the person having charge of  a small boat not belonging to the steamboat shall willfully or unnecessarily  stop the small boat within the distance of twenty yards.