California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Sections 650-674
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 650
It is the policy of this state to promote safety for persons and property in and connected with the use and equipment of vessels and...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 650.1
(a) This chapter shall apply to vessels and associated equipment used, to be used, or carried in vessels used on waters subject to the jurisdiction...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 651
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: (a) "Alcohol" means any form or derivative of ethyl alcohol (ethanol). (b)...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 651.1
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning, "bather" or "bathing" means a person floating, swimming, wading, or bodysurfing, with...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 651.5
The Department of Motor Vehicles shall provide every person who originally registers, or who acquires the ownership certificate of, a vessel required to be numbered...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 652
(a) The department may issue regulations: (1) Establishing minimum safety standards for boats and associated equipment. (2) Requiring the installation, carrying, or using of associated...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 652.5
(a) The use of a distinctive blue light as prescribed by the department is reserved for law enforcement vessels and may be displayed during the...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 654
(a) (1) For the purposes of this section, a "muffler" or "muffler system" is a sound suppression device or system that is designed and installed...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 654.03
(a) A person may not manufacture for sale a motorized recreational vessel that is not equipped with a muffler or muffler system, as defined in...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 654.05
(a) The owner of a motorized recreational vessel that is numbered pursuant to Section 9850 of the Vehicle Code, or that is documented by an...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 654.06
No person shall sell or offer for sale at retail any internal combustion engine for use on any motorized recreational vessel which, when operated, exceeds...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 654.1
Boating facilities constructed with funds derived from the state shall be required as a condition for the receipt of such funds to provide shoreside facilities...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 654.3
(a) Each diesel powered vessel operating exclusively in California, engaged in the commercial transport of passengers with the capacity to transport 75 passengers or more,...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 654.5
Any person who maliciously throws, hurls, or projects any object by manual, mechanical, or other means at a vessel or any occupant of a vessel...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 655
(a) No person shall use any vessel or manipulate water skis, an aquaplane, or a similar device in a reckless or negligent manner so as...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 655.05
(a) No person shall operate a vessel other than a recreational vessel for 24 hours if the person is found by a peace officer to...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 655.1
(a) As used in this section, "mechanically propelled vessel" means any vessel actively propelled by machinery, whether or not the machinery is the principal source...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 655.2
(a) Every owner, operator, or person in command of any vessel propelled by machinery is guilty of a misdemeanor who uses it, or permits it...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 655.3
The department may adopt regulations to establish and maintain for the use of vessels and the equipment on vessels on the waters of this state...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 655.4
(a) No person shall serve as a crew member on any charter boat while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, any drug, or the combined...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 655.5
(a) Whenever a person convicted of any violation of subdivision (b), (c), (d), (e), or (f) of Section 655 is found by the court to...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 655.6
(a) It is an infraction for a person under the age of 21 years who has 0.01 percent or more, by weight, of alcohol in...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 655.7
(a) A person operating a personal watercraft equipped by the manufacturer with a lanyard-type engine cutoff switch shall attach the lanyard to his or her...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 656
(a) It is the duty of the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty, so far as the operator can...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 656.1
The operator of any vessel involved in an accident in the waters of this state who knows or has reason to know that the accident...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 656.2
In addition to the requirements of Section 656.1, the operator of any vessel involved in an accident in the waters of this state who knows...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 656.3
In addition to the requirements of Sections 656.1 and 656.2, the operator of any vessel involved in an accident in the waters of this state...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 656.4
The department is authorized to develop a program of public information and research in the interest of reducing loss of life and property in the...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 657
In accordance with any request duly made by an authorized official or agency of the United States, any information compiled or otherwise available to the...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 658
(a) No person shall operate a vessel on any waters for towing a person or persons on water skis, an aquaplane, or a similar device...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 658.3
(a) No person shall operate a motorboat, sailboat, or vessel that is 26 feet or less in length, unless every person on board who is...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 658.5
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no person under 16 years of age shall operate a vessel powered by a motor of greater than...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 658.7
(a) Failure of the operator of a vessel involved in towing a skier to display or cause to be displayed a ski flag, as described...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 659
The department may make rules and regulations for the uniform navigational marking of the waters of this state. Such rules and regulations shall not be...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 660
(a) Any ordinance, law, regulation, or rule relating to vessels, which is adopted pursuant to provisions of law other than this chapter by any entity...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 660.2
(a) Upon request of the Director of Fish and Game, or his or her designee, the department shall restrict or prohibit, based on the request,...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 661
(a) Every owner of an undocumented vessel numbered under this code is liable and responsible for the death of or injury to person or property...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 662
A copy of the ordinances or local laws adopted pursuant to this chapter, and of any amendments thereto, shall be filed in the office of...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 663
Every peace officer of this state or of any city, county, city and county, or other political subdivision of the state shall enforce this chapter...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 663.1
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a peace officer may, without a warrant, arrest a person who is involved in an accident in the waters...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 663.5
Within the territorial limits of a county, city, or district, a harbor policeman regularly employed and paid as such by the county, city, or district...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 663.6
Every vessel subject to this chapter, if under way and lawfully ordered to stop and lie to by a peace officer or harbor policeman authorized...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 663.7
(a) Each county of the state is entitled to receive state financial aid for boating safety and enforcement programs on waters under its jurisdiction as...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 664
(a) When any person is arrested for a violation of this chapter or any regulation adopted by the department pursuant to this chapter or any...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 665
Any person willfully violating his written promise to appear in court is guilty of a misdemeanor regardless of the disposition of the charge upon which...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 666
When a person signs a written promise to appear at the time and place specified in the written promise to appear and has not posted...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 667
In addition to any other court which may be a proper place of trial, any superior court location where cases of that type are tried,...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 668
(a) Any person who violates subdivision (c) of Section 652, Section 654, 654.05, 654.06, 655.7, 658.3, 659, 673, 674, or 754, or any regulations adopted...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 668.1
(a) Any person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), or (f) of Section 655, or of Section 655.2, 655.6, 655.7,...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 668.2
The department may grant funds from the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund to local public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and colleges and universities for scholarship funding...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 668.3
(a) For the purposes of Section 668.1, the department shall approve boating safety courses that it determines provides the course taker with information that effectively...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 669
The regulations adopted by the department pursuant to this chapter shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 673
The owner of a boat livery shall cause to be kept a record of the name and address of the person or persons hiring any...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 674
Neither the owner of a boat livery nor his agent or employees shall permit any vessel to be delivered to a renter unless it shall...
