ARTICLE 1. Operation and Equipment [650. - 674.]

Article 1 added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1454.

§§ 650–674 · 54 sections

§ 650 It is the policy of this state to promote safety for persons and property in and connected with the use and equipment of vessels and to promote uniformity of…
§ 650.1 (a) This chapter shall apply to vessels and associated equipment used, to be used, or carried in vessels used on waters subject to the jurisdiction of this…
§ 651 As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: (a) “Alcohol” means any form or derivative of…
§ 651.1 As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning, “bather” or “bathing” means a person floating, swimming, wading, or…
§ 651.5 The Department of Motor Vehicles shall provide every person who originally registers, or who acquires the ownership certificate of, a vessel required to be…
§ 652 (a) The department may issue regulations to do all of the following: (1) Establish minimum safety standards for boats and associated equipment. (2) Require the…
§ 652.5 (a) The use of a distinctive blue light as prescribed by the department is reserved for public safety vessels and may be displayed during the day or night…
§ 654 (a) (1) For the purposes of this section, a “muffler” or “muffler system” is a sound suppression device or system that is designed and installed to abate the…
§ 654.03 (a) A person may not manufacture for sale a motorized recreational vessel that is not equipped with a muffler or muffler system, as defined in subdivision (a)…
§ 654.05 (a) The owner of a motorized recreational vessel that is numbered pursuant to Section 9850 of the Vehicle Code, or that is documented by an agency of the…
§ 654.06 No person shall sell or offer for sale at retail any internal combustion engine for use on any motorized recreational vessel which, when operated, exceeds the…
§ 654.1 Boating facilities constructed with funds derived from the state shall be required as a condition for the receipt of such funds to provide shoreside facilities…
§ 654.3 (a) Each diesel powered vessel operating exclusively in California, engaged in the commercial transport of passengers with the capacity to transport 75…
§ 654.5 A person who maliciously throws, hurls, or projects an object by manual, mechanical, or other means at a vessel or an occupant of a vessel on any of the waters…
§ 655 (a) No person shall use any vessel or manipulate water skis, an aquaplane, or a similar device in a reckless or negligent manner so as to endanger the life,…
§ 655.05 (a) No person shall operate a vessel other than a recreational vessel for 24 hours if the person is found by a peace officer to have an alcohol concentration…
§ 655.1 (a) As used in this section, “mechanically propelled vessel” means any vessel actively propelled by machinery, whether or not the machinery is the principal…
§ 655.2 (a) Every owner, operator, or person in command of any vessel propelled by machinery is guilty of an infraction who uses it, or permits it to be used, at a…
§ 655.3 The department may adopt regulations to establish and maintain for the use of vessels and the equipment on vessels on the waters of this state rules of the…
§ 655.4 (a) No person shall serve as a crew member on any charter boat while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, any drug, or the combined influence of…
§ 655.5 (a) Whenever a person convicted of any violation of subdivision (b), (c), (d), (e), or (f) of Section 655 is found by the court to have willfully refused the…
§ 655.6 (a) It is an infraction for a person under the age of 21 years who has 0.01 percent or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood to operate any motorized…
§ 655.7 (a) A person operating a personal watercraft equipped by the manufacturer with a lanyard-type engine cut-off switch shall attach the lanyard to themselves,…
§ 656 (a) It is the duty of the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty, so far as the operator can do so without serious danger to…
§ 656.1 The operator of any vessel involved in an accident in the waters of this state who knows or has reason to know that the accident resulted in damage to other…
§ 656.2 In addition to the requirements of Section 656.1, the operator of any vessel involved in an accident in the waters of this state who knows or has reason to…
§ 656.3 In addition to the requirements of Sections 656.1 and 656.2, the operator of any vessel involved in an accident in the waters of this state who knows or has…
§ 656.4 The department is authorized to develop a program of public information and research in the interest of reducing loss of life and property in the operation of…
§ 657 In accordance with any request duly made by an authorized official or agency of the United States, any information compiled or otherwise available to the…
§ 658 (a) No person shall operate a vessel on any waters for towing a person or persons on water skis, an aquaplane, or a similar device unless there is in the…
§ 658.3 (a) A person shall not use a recreational vessel unless all of the following requirements are met: (1) There is at least one wearable personal flotation device…
§ 658.5 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no person under 16 years of age shall operate a vessel powered by a motor of greater than 15 horsepower, except for…
§ 658.7 (a) Failure of the operator of a vessel involved in towing a skier to display or cause to be displayed a ski flag, as described in subdivision (a) of Section…
§ 659 The department may make rules and regulations for the uniform navigational marking of the waters of this state. Such rules and regulations shall not be in…
§ 660 (a) Any ordinance, law, regulation, or rule relating to vessels, which is adopted pursuant to provisions of law other than this chapter by any entity other…
§ 661 (a) Every owner of an undocumented vessel numbered under this code is liable and responsible for the death of or injury to person or property resulting from…
§ 662 A copy of the ordinances or local laws adopted pursuant to this chapter, and of any amendments thereto, shall be filed in the office of the department.
§ 663 Every peace officer of this state or of any city, county, city and county, or other political subdivision of the state shall enforce this chapter and any…
§ 663.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a peace officer may, without a warrant, arrest a person who is involved in an accident in the waters of this state…
§ 663.5 Within the territorial limits of a county, city, or district, a harbor policeman regularly employed and paid as such by the county, city, or district shall…
§ 663.6 Every vessel subject to this chapter, if under way and lawfully ordered to stop and lie to by a peace officer or harbor policeman authorized to enforce the…
§ 663.7 (a) Each county of the state is entitled to receive state financial aid for boating safety and enforcement programs on waters under its jurisdiction as…
§ 664 (a) When any person is arrested for a violation of this chapter or any regulation adopted by the department pursuant to this chapter or any ordinance or local…
§ 665 Any person willfully violating his written promise to appear in court is guilty of a misdemeanor regardless of the disposition of the charge upon which he was…
§ 666 When a person signs a written promise to appear at the time and place specified in the written promise to appear and has not posted bail as provided in Section…
§ 667 In addition to any other court which may be a proper place of trial, any superior court location where cases of that type are tried, within 50 miles by the…
§ 668 (a) Any person who violates subdivision (c) of Section 652, Section 654, 654.05, 654.06, 655.7, 658.3, 659, 673, 674, or 754, or any regulations adopted purs
§ 668.1 (a) A person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), or (f) of Section 655, or of Section 655.2, 655.6, 655.7, 658, or 658.5, or of…
§ 668.2 The department may grant funds from the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund to local public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and colleges and universities…
§ 668.3 (a) For the purposes of Section 668.1, the department shall approve boating safety courses that it determines provides the course taker with information that…
§ 668.5 (a) The interest of any registered owner of a vessel that has been used in the commission of a violation of subdivision (b) of Section 655 for which the owner…
§ 669 The regulations adopted by the department pursuant to this chapter shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of…
§ 673 The owner of a boat livery shall cause to be kept a record of the name and address of the person or persons hiring any boat or vessel subject to this code, the…
§ 674 Neither the owner of a boat livery nor his agent or employees shall permit any vessel to be delivered to a renter unless it shall have been provided, either by…