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235.200 Required equipment -- Prohibition against operation without required
equipment.
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(2)
(3)
Every vessel shall have aboard:
(a) Personal floatation devices of the type and quantity as prescribed by the
United States Coast Guard;
(b) When in operation during hours of darkness, or during times of poor
visibility, such lights as prescribed by administrative regulations of the
department;
(c) If carrying or using any inflammable or toxic fluid in any inclosure for any
purpose, and if not an entirely open motorboat, an efficient natural or
mechanical ventilation system which shall be capable of removing
resulting gases prior to and during the time such motorboat is occupied by
any person;
(d) Such additional equipment designed to promote the safety of navigation
and of persons as the department may find to be appropriate and for
which it has provided in its administrative regulations;
(e) If such motorboat is equipped with toilet facilities, a storage container or a
treatment or disposal system of size and construction sufficient to protect
and preserve the waters of this state from pollution. The storage container
or treatment or disposal system shall conform to the construction,
performance, and utilization criteria as may be established by regulations
promulgated pursuant to this chapter;
(f) The certificate number.
Except during an authorized race or regatta, which shall include trial runs in
preparation for such race or regatta to be conducted at a time and place
designated by the department, it shall be illegal to operate any motorboat
without an effective exhaust muffling system, or in any manner which renders
the exhaust muffling system ineffective in muffling the sound of engine
exhaust.
No person shall operate or give permission for the operation of a motorboat
which is not equipped as required by this section or modification thereof or
which is not safe for operation as a motorboat.
Effective: July 15, 1998
History: Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 23, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1998. -Amended 1978, sec. 263, sec. 13, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1974
Ky. Acts ch. 292, sec. 15. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 133, sec. 2. -- Created
1960 Ky. Acts ch. 68, Art. VIII, sec. 22.
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