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2025 California Code
Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC
DIVISION 3 - VESSELS
CHAPTER 4 - Service of Process
Section 600.
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CA Harb & Nav Code § 600 (2025)
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600. As used in this chapter:
(a) “Watercraft” means any boat, ship, barge, craft or floating thing designed for navigation in the water; and
(b) “Nonresident” means a person who is not a resident of this State at the time the accident or collision occurs or at the time a cause of action or claim for relief arises against him, and also means a person who, at the time the accident or collision occurs or at the time a cause of action or claim for relief arises against him is a resident of this State but subsequently becomes a nonresident of this State.
(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1280.)
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