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    Except as herein otherwise provided, every person, firm or corporation operating or maintaining any bathing pavilion or establishment along the seashore for the accommodation of persons for pay, and every person, firm or corporation who invites, permits or accommodates people to bathe or swim in the waters of or along the seashore, and shall charge, receive or accept any fee, rent, charge, remuneration, thing of value or other pecuniary benefit or advantage, directly or indirectly, for or in connection with inviting, permitting or accommodating people to bathe or swim, shall provide for the safety of such bathers and swimmers two parallel lines of sound, serviceable and strong manila or hemp rope, not less than one inch in diameter, anchored at some point above high water. The lines shall be made to extend as far into the surf as bathing is ordinarily safe for persons not expert in swimming, and, at such points of safety, shall be anchored and buoyed. Said two parallel lines of rope shall be such distance apart, and shall be located and maintained within the property and space fronting on such beach on which such person, firm or corporation shall operate and maintain such bathing pavilion or establishment, or such property and ocean frontage on which or in the waters of which any such person, firm or corporation shall directly or indirectly engage in the bathing business by inviting, permitting or accommodating people to bathe or swim, such parallel lines of rope providing and identifying a space which is believed to be safe for bathing and swimming.

    Every person, firm or corporation operating or maintaining any such bathing pavilion or establishment or who directly or indirectly engages in the bathing business by inviting, permitting or accommodating people to bathe or swim for pay, shall put up in some prominent place upon the beach near such pavilion or establishment or in or upon the ocean frontage on which or in the waters in which bathing and swimming is invited, permitted or accommodated, the following notice:   "Bathing beyond the lines dangerous."

    Such lines and notice shall continue to be maintained by every such person, firm or corporation during the entire season of surf bathing.

     Amended by L.1940, c. 94, p. 223, s. 1.

Last modified: October 21, 2006