2025 California Code
Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC
DIVISION 3 - VESSELS
CHAPTER 5 - Operation and Equipment of Vessels
ARTICLE 3 - For-Hire Vessel Operators’ Licenses
Section 760.

Universal Citation:
CA Harb & Nav Code § 760 (2025)
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760. As used in this article, “for-hire vessel” includes any vessel propelled by machinery carrying more than three passengers for hire, except the following:

(a) A sea plane on the water.

(b) A watercraft specifically designed to operate on a permanently fixed course, the movement of which is restricted to or guided on such permanently fixed course by means of a mechanical device on a fixed track or arm to which the watercraft is attached or by which the watercraft is controlled, or by means of a mechanical device attached to the watercraft itself.

(Added by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1337.)

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