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2018 Code of Virginia
Title 29.1 - Game, Inland Fisheries and Boating
Chapter 7 - Boating Laws
Article 1. Boat Registration and Identification
- § 29.1-700. Definitions
- § 29.1-701. Department to administer chapter; Motorboat Committee; funds for administration; records; rules and regulations
- § 29.1-701.1. Authority of Board to set fees
- § 29.1-702. Registration requirements; display of numbers; cancellation of certificate; exemption
- § 29.1-702.1. Making false affidavit or swearing falsely, perjury; penalty
- § 29.1-703. Identification numbers required; decals
- § 29.1-703.1. Temporary registration certificate; fee; application
- § 29.1-703.2. Designation of agents; compensation to agents; deposit of temporary registration certificate moneys
- § 29.1-704. Recording previously awarded numbers
- § 29.1-705. Change of ownership of motorboat; lost certificates
- § 29.1-706. Agents awarding numbers
- § 29.1-707. Records
- § 29.1-708. Transfer, destruction or abandonment of motorboat
- § 29.1-709. Change of address of certificate holder
- § 29.1-710. Exemption from numbering requirements
- § 29.1-711. Dealers and manufacturers of motorboats
Article 2. Watercraft Titling Certificates [Repealed]
Article 2.1. Virginia Uniform Certificate of Title for Watercraft Act
- § 29.1-733.2. Definitions
- § 29.1-733.3. Applicability
- § 29.1-733.4. Supplemental principles of law and equity
- § 29.1-733.5. Law governing watercraft covered by certificate of title
- § 29.1-733.6. Certificate of title required
- § 29.1-733.7. Application for certificate of title
- § 29.1-733.8. Creation and cancellation of certificate of title
- § 29.1-733.9. Content of certificate of title
- § 29.1-733.10. Title brand
- § 29.1-733.11. Maintenance of and access to files
- § 29.1-733.12. Action required on creation of certificate of title
- § 29.1-733.13. Effect of certificate of title
- § 29.1-733.14. Effect of possession of certificate of title; judicial process; levy; penalty
- § 29.1-733.15. Perfection of security interest
- § 29.1-733.16. Termination statement; delivery of certificate of title; penalty
- § 29.1-733.17. Transfer of ownership
- § 29.1-733.18. Effect of missing or incorrect information
- § 29.1-733.19. Transfer of ownership by secured party's transfer statement
- § 29.1-733.20. Transfer by operation of law
- § 29.1-733.21. Application for transfer of ownership or termination of security interest without certificate of title
- § 29.1-733.22. Replacement certificate of title
- § 29.1-733.23. Rights of purchaser other than secured party
- § 29.1-733.24. Rights of secured party
- § 29.1-733.25. Acquiring title to an abandoned watercraft
- § 29.1-733.26. Duties and operation of the Department
- § 29.1-733.27. Uniformity of application and construction
- § 29.1-733.28. Relationship to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
- § 29.1-733.29. Savings clause
Article 3. Boating Safety
- § 29.1-734. Authorization for and placing of markers in waters of the Commonwealth used for public swimming areas; no motorboating, waterskiing in marked area
- § 29.1-734.1. Skin and scuba divers
- § 29.1-735. Regulations for vessel operation and equipment
- § 29.1-735.1. Board authorized to promulgate regulations for seaplanes
- § 29.1-735.2. Boating safety education required; Board to promulgate regulations
- § 29.1-735.3. Regulation of parasail operators
- § 29.1-736. Boat rentals; equipment; safety course
- § 29.1-737. Muffling devices
- § 29.1-738. Operating boat or manipulating water skis, etc., in reckless manner or while intoxicated, etc.
- § 29.1-738.01. Operating boat in an improper manner; penalty
- § 29.1-738.02. Persons under age twenty-one operating watercraft after illegally consuming alcohol; penalty
- § 29.1-738.03. Reckless operation of a personal watercraft
- § 29.1-738.1. Analysis of breath to determine alcohol content of blood
- § 29.1-738.2. Consent to blood or breath test
- § 29.1-738.3. Presumptions from alcohol or drug content
- § 29.1-738.4. Additional penalty for reckless or intoxicated operation of a watercraft or motorboat
- § 29.1-738.5. Participation in rehabilitation program
- § 29.1-738.6. When arrested person operating a vessel; how vessel removed from scene of arrest
- § 29.1-739. Duty of operator involved in collision, accident or other casualty; immunity from liability; report of collision, etc.; summons in lieu of arrest
- § 29.1-739.1. Disregarding signal by law-enforcement officer to stop; attempts to elude; penalty
- § 29.1-739.2. Conservation police officers to patrol lakes
- § 29.1-740. Duty to stop and render assistance; penalties for violations
- § 29.1-741. Furnishing information to agency of United States
- § 29.1-742. Towing water skis, surfboards, etc.
- § 29.1-743. Repealed
- § 29.1-744. Local regulation; application for placement or removal of "no wake" buoys, etc.
- § 29.1-744.1. Repealed
- § 29.1-744.2. Repealed
- § 29.1-744.3. Slacken speed and control wakes near structures
- § 29.1-744.4. "Pass-through" zones; local ordinances; penalties
- § 29.1-745. Enforcement of chapter; vessels displaying Coast Guard inspection decal
- § 29.1-746. Penalties
Article 4. Personal Watercraft
- § 29.1-747. Repealed
- § 29.1-748. Restrictions on operation; penalty
- § 29.1-748.1. Local ordinances; operation on lakes; minimum distance from shoreline; penalty
- § 29.1-749. Owner of personal watercraft permitting violation; penalty
- § 29.1-749.1. Identification of personal watercraft rentals
- § 29.1-749.2. Local regulation of personal watercraft rentals; penalty
- § 29.1-749.3. Personal watercraft instruction; rental agents
- § 29.1-750. Exemptions
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