2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 30 - FISH
Chapter 53 - Registration and Titling of Boats
Section 5306 - Certificate of registration

     § 5306.  Certificate of registration.
        (a)  Issuance.--Upon receipt of a signed application and upon
     the payment of the annual registration fee, the commission shall
     issue to the applicant owner a certificate of registration for
     his boat. The certificate of registration shall be pocket size.
        (b)  Carrying on boat.--The certificate of registration shall
     be available at all times for inspection on the boat for which
     issued whenever the boat is in operation, and shall be carried
     in such manner that it can be handed to any Federal, State or
     local law enforcement officer authorized to inspect it. The
     commission may, by regulation, exempt certain classes of boats
     from this requirement or prescribe alternate compliance
     requirements.
        (c)  Retention on shore.--The certificate of registration for
     boats less than 26 feet long, leased or rented for noncommercial
     use of less than seven days, may be retained on shore by the
     owner of the boat or his representative at the place from which
     the boat departs or returns to the possession of the owner or
     his representative. A boat that does not have the certificate of
     registration on board shall be identifiable while in use and
     shall comply with all other requirements.
        (d)  Duplicates.--The commission may issue a duplicate
     certificate of registration to the owner of a properly
     registered boat upon application by the owner on a form
     prescribed by the commission together with payment of the
     applicable fee.
        (e)  Penalty.--Any person violating any provision of this
     section commits a summary offense of the fourth degree.
     (Dec. 22, 1989, P.L.735, No.102, eff. Jan. 1, 1990; Dec. 12,
     1991, P.L.368, No.39, eff. imd.)

        1991 Amendment.  Act 39 amended subsecs. (a), (b) and (c).
     Section 6 of Act 39 provided that Act 39 shall apply to boat
     registrations issued for the calendar year 1992 and each year
     thereafter.