5-301. Definitions


In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:


1. "Commercial motorized watercraft" means a motorized watercraft that carries
passengers or property for a valuable consideration that is paid to the owner, charterer,
operator or agent or to any other person interested in the watercraft.


2. "Commission" means the Arizona game and fish commission.


3. "Department" means the Arizona game and fish department.


4. "Motorboat" means any watercraft that is not more than sixty-five feet in length
and that is propelled by machinery whether or not such machinery is the principal source
of propulsion.


5. "Motorized watercraft" means any watercraft that is propelled by machinery
whether or not the machinery is the principal source of propulsion.


6. "Operate" means to operate or be in actual physical control of a watercraft
while on public waters.


7. "Operator" means a person who operates or is in actual physical control of a
watercraft while on public waters.


8. "Person" includes any individual, firm, corporation, partnership or association,
and any agent, assignee, trustee, executor, receiver or representative thereof.


9. "Public waters" means any body of water which is publicly owned or which the
public is permitted to use without permission of the owner upon which a motorized
watercraft can be navigated, including that part of waters common to interstate
boundaries which is within the boundaries of this state.


10. "Revocation" means invalidating the certificate of number, numbers and annual
validation decals issued by the department to a watercraft and prohibiting the operation
of the watercraft on the waters of this state during a period of noncompliance with this
chapter.


11. "Sailboard" means any board of less than fifteen feet in length which is
designed to be propelled by wind action upon a sail for navigation on the water by a
person operating the board.


12. "Special anchorage area" means an area set aside and under the control of a
federal, state or local governmental agency, or by a duly authorized marina operator or
concessionaire for the mooring, anchoring or docking of watercraft.


13. "Underway" means that a watercraft on public waters is not at anchor, is not
made fast to the shore or is not aground.


14. "Undocumented watercraft" means any watercraft which does not have and is not
required to have a valid marine document as a watercraft of the United States.


15. "Wakeless speed" means a speed that does not cause the watercraft to create a
wake, but in no case in excess of five miles per hour.


16. "Watercraft" means any boat designed to be propelled by machinery, oars, paddles
or wind action upon a sail for navigation on the water, or as may be defined by rule of
the commission.


17. "Waterway" means any body of water, public or private, upon which a watercraft
can be navigated.