5-344. Overloading
A. No watercraft shall be loaded and operated with passengers or cargo beyond its
safe carrying capacity or the limitations on the manufacturer's load capacity plate.
B. All new watercraft twenty feet in length and under designed to carry two or more
persons and to be propelled by machinery or oars, offered for sale or manufactured in the
state after January 1, 1971, shall have affixed permanently thereto a manufacturer's load
capacity plate in a location easily observed from the position designed or intended to be
occupied by the operator. Canoes and sailboats shall be exempt from the provisions of
this section.
C. The load capacity plate shall be certified by a licensed manufacturer or the
United States coast guard.
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