 Perry's Sheriff's Office would like to remind the public that the new life jacket law is in for minors. The law states that it should be unlawful for any parent or legal guardian who has care of a control of a minor to permit the minor to knowingly swim without wearing a type 1, 2, 3, or 5 life jacket, personal flotation device, or approved by the Coast Guard in any portion of river beginning from a water-controlled structure through that which a river flows to a point 70 miles downstream where that structure creates a reservoir used to generate hydroelectric power.