Unless the context otherwise requires, the meaning of the terms used
herein shall be as follows:
COMMISSION
The Boat Regulation Commission established pursuant to § 14
of P.L. 1962, c. 73 (N.J.S.A. 12:7-34.49).
DEPARTMENT
The Department of Law and Public Safety.
DIRECTOR
The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department
of Transportation.
DIVISION
The Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Transportation.
DOCUMENTED VESSEL
A vessel which has a valid marine document issued by the United States
Coast Guard or any federal agency successor thereto.
LENGTH
Measurement from end to end over the deck parallel to the center
line excluding sheer, bowsprits, bumpkins, rudders, outboard motors, brackets
or other equipment or appendages.
MOTOR
A temporarily or permanently installed fuel - consuming
mechanism by which the vessel is or may be propelled, including an electrical
motor.
OPERATE
To navigate, use, control or command a vessel.
OPERATOR
Every person having charge, control, operation or direction of any
vessel and the owner of the vessel if the owner is on the vessel at the time
it is operated in violation of the law.
OWNER
A person, other than a lienholder, having the property in or title
to a vessel. The term includes a person entitled to the use or possession
of the vessel subject to an interest of another person, reserved or created
by agreement and securing payment or performance of an obligation, but the
term excludes a lessee under a lease not intended as security.
PERSONAL WATERCRAFT
A power vessel defined as a Class “A” vessel by the United
State Coast Guard, and which:
A.
Is designed to be operated from a sitting, standing or kneeling position;
B.
Is equipped with an internal combustion engine which powers a water
jet pump; and
C.
Cannot be operated in a manner so as to disengage the pump so as to
prevent the vessel from making headway.
POWER VESSEL
A vessel temporarily or permanently equipped with machinery for propulsion,
including a personal watercraft, and shall not include a vessel propelled
wholly by sail or by muscular power.
SAILBOAT
Any boat whose sole source of propulsion is the natural elements
(i.e., wind).
VESSEL
A boat or watercraft, other than a sea plane on the water, used or
capable of being used as a means of transportation on water.
WATERS OF THIS STATE
All waters within the jurisdiction of this state, both tidal and
nontidal, and the marginal sea adjacent to this state to a distance of three
nautical miles from the shoreline.