2016 Arkansas Code
Title 27 - Transportation
Subtitle 7 - Watercourses and Navigation
Chapter 101 - Watercraft
Subchapter 3 - -- Motorboat Registration and Numbering
§ 27-101-306. Numbering period -- Expiration -- Renewal

(a) The certificates of numbers issued pursuant to subchapters 1-3 of this chapter may be for a period of three (3) years.

(b) The Director of the Department of Finance and Administration shall establish a system in a manner that the expiration dates of the various certificates of numbers will be evenly distributed throughout the year and each year thereafter to the end that boat certificates of numbers will be renewable as uniformly as practicable throughout each of the twelve (12) months of the license year in each year.

(c) Upon request, the director shall assign to any owner of two (2) or more boats the same registration period.

(d) (1) A fee based on the length of the motorboat as set forth in this subsection shall be charged for the issuance of a certificate of number and for each renewal of each certificate of number.

(2) The fee to be collected for certificates shall be as follows:

(e) Notice shall be given to the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission of each certificate of number renewed and of the transfer of any certificate of number.

(f) Every certificate of number awarded pursuant to this subchapter shall continue in full force and effect until the expiration of each numbering period unless sooner terminated or discontinued in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.

(g) Certificates of number may be renewed by the owner in the same manner as is provided in this section for initially securing the certificate and upon payment of the fee as set forth in this section except that the certificate of a motorboat shall not be renewed if it is equipped with more than fifty horsepower (50 HP) or is personal watercraft unless proof is presented that it is covered by a liability insurance policy issued by an insurance company authorized to do business in this state.

(h) Unless a certificate of number is renewed on or before the fifteenth day following the expiration thereof, it shall lapse and shall no longer be of any force and effect unless renewed in the manner prescribed in this subchapter.