Unless the context otherwise requires, the meaning of the terms used
herein shall be as follows:
The Boat Regulation Commission established pursuant to § 14
of P.L. 1962, c. 73 (N.J.S.A. 12:7-34.49).
The Department of Law and Public Safety.
The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department
of Transportation.
The Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Transportation.
A vessel which has a valid marine document issued by the United States
Coast Guard or any federal agency successor thereto.
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.
A temporarily or permanently installed fuel - consuming
mechanism by which the vessel is or may be propelled, including an electrical
motor.
To navigate, use, control or command a vessel.
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.
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.
A power vessel defined as a Class “A” vessel by the United
State Coast Guard, and which:
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.
Any boat whose sole source of propulsion is the natural elements
(i.e., wind).
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.
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.
