2012 Delaware Code
Title 23 - Navigation and Waters
CHAPTER 21. MOTORBOATS
Subchapter II. Registration, Equipment and Operation
§ 2125. Penalties; jurisdiction.

(a) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this chapter, except §§ 2113(e), 2116(b), (c), (d), (e) and (f), or any regulation promulgated thereunder, shall for the first offense be fined not less than $25 nor more than $50. For each subsequent like offense occurring within 12 months of a prior conviction, the person shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $100.

(b) Whoever violates § 2113(e) of this title shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $100.

(c) Whoever violates §§ 2116(b) or (c) of this title shall for the first offense be fined not less than $25 nor more than $115. For each subsequent like offense occurring within 3 years of a prior conviction, the person shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $230, or be imprisoned not less than 10 nor more than 30 days, or both.

(d) Whoever violates § 2116(d) of this title shall for the first offense be fined not less than $100 nor more than $300, or be imprisoned not less than 10 nor more than 30 days, or both. The period of imprisonment for a first offense may be suspended. For each subsequent like offense occurring within 3 years of a prior conviction, the person shall be fined not less than $300 nor more than $1,000, or be imprisoned not less than 30 nor more than 60 days, or both. No person sentenced under this subsection as a repeat offender shall receive a suspended sentence.

(e) The Justice of the Peace Courts shall have jurisdiction over any violation of this chapter, with the exception of § 2116(f) of this title.

23 Del. C. 1953, § 2130; 52 Del. Laws, c. 154, § 20; 53 Del. Laws, c. 27, § 8; 58 Del. Laws, c. 193; 58 Del. Laws, c. 239, § 1; 59 Del. Laws, c. 576, § 1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 427, § 3.;