KARE 11If you’ve ever been to Lake Minnetonka, you know it’s busy in the summer.
“I’ve been out on a Saturday before, and you can’t even go, you can’t go fast at all, you’ve got to kind of cruise between people,” said Coral Anderson, the marketing manager at River Valley Marine.
She loves working on the lake and wants everyone to be safe, which is why she’s excited about a new boating law .
“I think this new law is great. I think that it will create a lot of education and a lot more safety on the water between boaters and people on personal watercraft,” she said.
Robert Gorecki, assistant director of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Enforcement Division, says the new law is an expansion of the current boater operator law.
“Anybody from the ages of 12 - 17 had to have a boater