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2016 Utah Code
Title 73 - Water and Irrigation
Chapter 18 - State Boating Act
- Section 1 - Statement of policy.
- Section 2 - Definitions.
- Section 3 - Enforcement of State Boating Act to be supervised by division.
- Section 3.5 - Advisory council.
- Section 4 - Board may promulgate rules and set fees.
- Section 6 - Numbering of motorboats and sailboats required -- Exception.
- Section 7 - Registration requirements -- Exemptions -- Fee -- Agents -- Records -- Period of registration and renewal -- Expiration -- Notice of transfer of interest or change of address -- Duplicate registration card -- Invalid registration -- Powers of board.
- Section 7.1 - Fraudulent application for registration or certificate of title.
- Section 7.2 - Falsified registration or certificate of title.
- Section 7.3 - Suspension or revocation of a registration or certificate of title.
- Section 7.4 - Canceled, suspended, or revoked registration or certificate of title to be returned.
- Section 8 - Safety equipment required to be on board vessels -- Penalties.
- Section 8.1 - Capacity and certification label.
- Section 9 - Exemptions from registration.
- Section 10 - Owner of boat livery -- Duties.
- Section 11 - Regulation of muffling devices.
- Section 12 - Operation in willful or wanton disregard for safety -- Penalty.
- Section 13 - Duties of operator involved in accident -- Notification and reporting procedures -- Use of accident reports -- Giving false information as misdemeanor.
- Section 13.1 - Accident involving property damage -- Duties of operator, occupant, and owner -- Penalties.
- Section 13.2 - Accident involving injury -- Stop at accident -- Penalty.
- Section 13.3 - Accident involving death -- Stop at accident -- Penalty.
- Section 13.5 - Motorboat accidents -- Investigation and report of operator security -- Agency action if no security -- Surrender of registration materials.
- Section 13.6 - Grounds for confiscation of registration materials by state -- Registration renewal.
- Section 14 - Transmittal of information to official or agency of United States.
- Section 15 - Board to adopt rules concerning water skiing and aquaplane riding and use of other devices towed behind a vessel.
- Section 15.1 - Vessel navigation and steering laws.
- Section 15.2 - Minimum age of operators -- Boating safety course for youth to operate personal watercraft.
- Section 15.3 - Personal watercraft -- Prohibition on operation between sunset and sunrise.
- Section 15.5 - Authorizing or permitting driving a vessel in violation of law.
- Section 16 - Regattas, races, exhibitions -- Rules.
- Section 17 - Scope of application of chapter -- Identical local ordinances authorized -- Application for special local rules.
- Section 18 - Liability of owner for injury or damage occasioned by negligent operation of vessel by minor.
- Section 19 - Publication of rules and regulations.
- Section 20 - Enforcement of chapter -- Authority to stop and board vessels -- Disregarding law enforcement signal to stop as misdemeanor -- Procedure for arrest.
- Section 20.1 - Seizure of a vessel.
- Section 20.2 - Defaced, altered, or obliterated identification or serial number -- Release of vessel.
- Section 20.3 - Falsified hull identification, engine, or motor number.
- Section 20.4 - Duty to report falsified vessel or motor number.
- Section 20.5 - Reporting of theft and recovery of vessels.
- Section 20.6 - Report by owners or lienholders of thefts and recoveries.
- Section 20.7 - Unlawful control over vessels -- Penalties -- Effect of prior consent -- Accessory or accomplice.
- Section 21 - Violation of chapter as class C misdemeanor.
- Section 22 - Boating Account created -- Contents -- Use of money.
- Section 23 - Separability clause.
- Section 24 - Search and rescue fee -- Amount -- Deposit.
- Section 25 - Fees to cover the costs of electronic payments.
- Section 26 - Aquatic invasive species fee -- Amount -- Deposit.
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