Chapter 488 - Watercraft
- ABANDONED VESSELS
- 488.291 - Abandonment prohibited; evidence of responsibility for abandonment; removal of vessel from public waterway.
- 488.293 - Authority of peace officer to identify registered owner of vessel abandoned on private property; peace officer to notify Department of removal of abandoned vessel; law enforcement agency to
- BOAT LIVERIES
- DISPOSAL OF WASTE
- DIVERS
- ENFORCEMENT
- EQUIPMENT
- 488.185 - Classification of motorboats.
- 488.187 - Lights.
- 488.193 - Personal flotation devices; fire extinguishers; flame arrestors; ventilation of bilges; modification of requirements.
- 488.195 - Muffling devices.
- 488.197 - Sirens.
- 488.198 - Whistles; bells.
- 488.257 - “Mooring buoy” defined; requirements for colors and lights.
- 488.259 - Mooring buoy: Permit required; exception; permit for placement in navigable waters.
- 488.261 - Mooring buoy: Permit for placement in nonnavigable waters; permit for temporary placement; regulations and enforcement.
- 488.263 - Permit not required for temporary mooring buoy.
- 488.265 - Anchoring or mooring vessel which obstructs passageway prohibited; exceptions.
- 488.285 - Mooring to buoy or navigational aid prohibited; interference with buoy or navigational aid without written authorization prohibited; exception; penalties.
- GENERAL PROVISIONS
- OPERATION
- OPERATION OF MOTORBOATS ON INTERSTATE WATERS; INSTRUCTIONIN SAFE BOATING
- 488.730 - Operation of certain motorboats on interstate waters of State by persons born on or after January 1, 1983: Requirements; presentation to peace officer of certain documentation; duties of cer
- 488.740 - Department to certify persons to provide instruction in safe boating; powers and duties of Department concerning courses in safe boating.
- 488.750 - Persons born on or after January 1, 1983, to submit to Department certification of completion of course or passage of proficiency examination in safe boating; database of certificates.
- OWNERSHIP, REGISTRATION AND NUMBERING
- 488.065 - Operation of unnumbered or uncertified motorboat prohibited.
- 488.075 - Number, certificate of number and certificate of ownership: Application; issuance; fees; location of number on boat.
- 488.078 - Department to submit certain information to Division of Welfare and Supportive Services. [Effective until the date of the repeal of the federal law requiring each state to establish procedur
- 488.085 - Recordation in this State of number previously awarded pursuant to federally approved numbering system of another state.
- 488.105 - Conformity of state numbering system with federal system.
- 488.115 - Awarding of certificates of number; authorization of agents; retention of fee by agent; public records.
- 488.125 - Certificates of number effective for 1 year; renewal.
- 488.135 - Department to fix date on which certificates of number lapse.
- 488.145 - Destruction or abandonment of motorboat: Owner to furnish notice to Department; termination of certificate of number.
- 488.155 - Change of address of holder of certificate of number or ownership: Holder to notify Department and furnish new address; surrender and replacement or alteration of inaccurate certificates.
- 488.165 - Display of unauthorized number or decal prohibited.
- 488.171 - Hull numbers: Prohibited acts; assignment to handmade vessels; penalty.
- 488.175 - Exemption from requirements for numbering and titling; issuance of exempt numbers.
- 488.1793 - Requirements for transfer of ownership or interest in certain motorboats; exceptions.
- 488.1794 - Certificate of ownership in beneficiary form: Application; issuance to tenant in common prohibited; contents; effect; revocation; encumbrances; duties of Department; transfer upon death not
- 488.1795 - Transferee to file certificates, pay fee and apply for new certificates.
- 488.1797 - Requirements for issuance of certificate of ownership.
- 488.1801 - Owner of motorboat to notify Department of sale or transfer of title or interest; exception; information to be furnished.
- 488.1803 - Dealer’s report of sale, lease or other transfer; exception.
- 488.1805 - Interest of registered owner not affected by assignment by legal owner.
- 488.1807 - Endorsement of certificate upon transfer of title or interest of legal owner; exception.
- 488.181 - Endorsement of certificate on transfer by registered owner.
- 488.1813 - Issuance of duplicate certificate on loss, destruction or mutilation of original.
- 488.1815 - Failure to endorse or deliver certificate to transferee unlawful.
- 488.1817 - New certificate not required on substitution of security interest between same parties; time limit.
- 488.182 - Transfer of ownership not required on pledge of security interest.
- 488.1823 - Procedure for perfection of security interest.
- 488.1825 - Method prescribed for perfecting security interest is exclusive.
- 488.1826 - Suspension of certificate of number or validation decal for failure to pay child support or comply with certain subpoenas or warrants; reinstatement of certificate of number or validation d
- PENALTIES
- REGATTAS AND RACES