ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: CA EQUINE PROTECTIVE HEADGEAR BILL

Re: CA EQUINE PROTECTIVE HEADGEAR BILL

Nat & Richard (trailride@foothill.net)
Mon, 07 Apr 1997 16:03:08 -0700

Jessica Tuteur <jessicat@napanet.net> wrote,

> I can just see it now. All the spectators at a show or clinic sitting in the
> grandstands with their helmets on, and an even better visual is the cowboys
> branding and roping their cattle with their little white Lexington schooling
> helmuts on....

This should be an interesting one to follow. Anyone care to bet that
the rodeo types don't ask/get an exception for their shows?

Seriously, it would make a lot of sense for this bill (AB 309) requiring
headgear to be joined at the hip with the other one (AB 1540) providing
liability protection "when a horse acts like a horse." The latter has
been offered annually in California and has failed each time.

Many other states already have such a law. Duncan Fletcher shared an
excellent link for this info last month. For those interested who may
have missed it:

> http://www.law.utexas.edu/dawson/index.htm ...look under Equine Activity
> Statutes. The text of your state's Equine Acivity Statute (if it has one)
> will be there....

/richard

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