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AL Code § 33-5-17 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-17 - Certificates of Registration and Numbers Generally - Classification of Vessels; Registration Fees.

Section 33-5-17Certificates of registration and numbers generally - Classification of vessels; registration fees. (a) Vessels subject to this article shall be classified according to the following schedule and annual fees charged by the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency for registration shall be in the following amounts: CLASS 1. Less than 16 feet in length, eighteen dollars ($18) plus a two dollar ($2) issuance fee. CLASS 2. Sixteen feet or over and less than 26 feet in length, twenty-three dollars ($23) plus a two dollar ($2) issuance fee. CLASS 3. Twenty-six feet or over and less than 40 feet in length, seventy-three dollars ($73) plus a two dollar ($2) issuance fee. CLASS 4. Forty feet or over in length, ninety-eight dollars ($98) plus a two dollar ($2) issuance fee. The above stated fees shall also apply to livery boats. CLASS 5. Dealer or manufacturer; temporary license, twenty-three dollars ($23) plus a two dollar ($2) issuance fee for each license. (b) In addition to the foregoing fees, there shall be an inspection fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) for all homemade boats which require a hull identification number. (c) In addition to the foregoing fees, there shall be an additional registration fee of five dollars ($5) for every Class 1 through 4 vessel registered. All monies received from the additional registration fee provided under this subsection shall be remitted monthly to the State Treasurer to be deposited into the State Reservoir Management Grant Fund not later than 10 days after the first of each month. (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §16; Acts 1961, No. 878, p. 1377, §4; Acts 1971, No. 2081, p. 3352, §1; Acts 1981, No. 81-296, p. 377, §1; Acts 1984, No. 84-446, p. 1040, §6; Acts 1993, No. 93-754, p. 1508, §1; Act 2007-420, p. 896, §1; Act 2021-447, §2.)
AL Code § 33-5-18 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-18 - Certificates of Registration and Numbers Generally - Only Authorized Number to Be Used.

Section 33-5-18Certificates of registration and numbers generally - Only authorized number to be used. No number other than the number awarded to the vessel or granted reciprocity pursuant to this article shall be painted, attached or otherwise displayed on either side of the bow of such vessel. (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §15.)
AL Code § 33-5-19 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-19 - Certificates of Registration and Numbers Generally - Exemption From Numbering Provisions of Article.

Section 33-5-19Certificates of registration and numbers generally - Exemption from numbering provisions of article. A vessel shall not be required to be numbered under this article if it is: (1) A vessel operating under valid temporary certificate or number; (2) Already covered by a number in full force and effect which has been awarded to it pursuant to federal law or a federally approved numbering system of another state; provided, that such vessel shall not have been within this state for a period in excess of 90 consecutive days; (3) A vessel under registry from a country other than the United States temporarily using the waters of this state; (4) A vessel owned by the United States, or a state, county or municipality; (5) A ship's lifeboat; or (6) A vessel not propelled by machinery, except sail boats and boats for hire. (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §18.)
AL Code § 33-5-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-20 - Special Agents to Sell Boat Licenses.

Section 33-5-20Special agents to sell boat licenses. The sheriffs of this state may be designated as special agents to sell boat licenses as provided for herein. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources is authorized to appoint other special agents to sell boat licenses as provided for herein; provided, however, that the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may not appoint any special agent until the agent is bonded for not less than five thousand dollars ($5,000). Such agents shall receive licenses from the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in the same manner as the probate judges and license commissioners and shall make such reports and be subject to such audits as the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may specify. Special agents so appointed shall make returns to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in the same manner as probate judges and license commissioners. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources is further authorized to cancel such special agents' authority to sell licenses at any time he or she may so desire. Special agents shall be entitled to an issuance fee of two dollars ($2). Any special agent selling licenses in excess of the cost of licenses as herein specified shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100). (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §32; Act 2007-420, §1.)
AL Code § 33-5-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-21 - Safety Provisions Relative to Boat Liveries.

Section 33-5-21Safety provisions relative to boat liveries. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources through its agents and employees shall have the right to inspect at any reasonable time all boats owned or controlled by a livery operator for the purpose of ascertaining their seaworthiness and safety. In the event any boat owned or used by the livery operator for rental purposes is determined to be in an unsafe or unseaworthy condition, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall immediately notify the livery operator in writing as to the unsafe or unseaworthy condition of such boat or boats and, after such notification, it shall be unlawful for the boat liveryman to rent or offer to rent any boat found to be in such condition; provided, however, that if such cited boat can be placed in a seaworthy or safe condition by repairs or alterations as so directed by the department, the same may then again be used for rental purposes but only after another inspection of the vessel to ascertain whether or not such repairs or alterations have been duly made. (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §19; Acts 1961, No. 878, p. 1377, §5.)
AL Code § 33-5-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-22 - Safety Equipment and Lights; Flags; Capacity Plate; Flame Arrestor, etc., for Carburetor.

Section 33-5-22Safety equipment and lights; flags; capacity plate; flame arrestor, etc., for carburetor. (a) Every vessel while being operated on the waters of this state shall be equipped with reasonable safety devices and lights as may be required under regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources. No person shall operate or give permission for the operation of a vessel which is not equipped as is required by rules and regulations duly promulgated by the commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (b) All such safety equipment and safety lights required by this section shall meet such standards as the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may from time to time establish as minimum equipment, and all such safety equipment and safety lights above the minimum requirements which are required by the rules and regulations of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall conform with specific standards as may be adopted by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (c) Airboats shall display a flag 10 by 14 inches on a 12 foot mast. (d) A diver's flag must be displayed on the surface of any water where skin divers are operating as may be stipulated by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (e) Every vessel less than 26 feet in length designed to carry one or more persons and to be propelled by machinery as its principal source of power or designed to be propelled by oars shall, if manufactured or offered for sale in this state, have affixed permanently thereto by the manufacturer a capacity plate as required by rules and regulations duly promulgated by the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. This subsection shall apply to vessels manufactured after January 1, 1971. (f) Every motorboat shall have the carburetor or carburetors of every engine therein, except outboard motors using gasoline as fuel, equipped with such efficient USCG approved flame arrestor, backfire trap or similar device as may be prescribed by the regulations duly promulgated by the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §17; Acts 1969, No. 1057, p. 1977, §1.)
AL Code § 33-5-22.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-22.1 - "Sailboard" Defined; Hull Deemed Flotation Device.

Section 33-5-22.1"Sailboard" defined; hull deemed flotation device. (a) For the purposes of this section "sailboard" means any sailboat whose unsupported mast is connected by a snivel or a flexible universal joint to a hull similar to the hull of a surfboard. (b) Any law, rule or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, the hull of a sailboard shall be deemed to be a flotation device. Any sailboarder or wind surfer is exempt from any additional type of personal flotation device. (Acts 1986, No. 86-465, p. 850.)
AL Code § 33-5-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-23 - Muffling Devices and Sirens.

Section 33-5-23Muffling devices and sirens. (a) The exhaust of every internal combustion engine used on any vessel shall be effectively muffled by equipment so constructed and used as to muffle the noise of the exhaust in a reasonable manner. The use of cutouts is prohibited, except for vessels competing in a regatta or official boat race, and for such vessels while on trial runs. (b) No person shall use or have on board his vessel a siren of any type while operating on the waters of this state except as may be specifically allowed by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources for enforcement purposes. (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §20; Acts 1961, No. 878, p. 1377, §6.)
AL Code § 33-5-25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-25 - Collisions, Accidents, and Casualties.

Section 33-5-25Collisions, accidents, and casualties. (a) It shall be the duty of the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty, so far as he or she can do so without serious danger to his or her own vessel, crew, and passengers, if any, to render to other persons affected by the collision, accident, or other casualty assistance as may be practicable and as may be necessary in order to save them from or minimize any danger caused by the collision, accident, or other casualty, and also to give his or her name, address, and identification of his or her vessel in writing to any person injured and to the owner of any property damaged in the collision, accident, or other casualty. (b) In the case of collision, accident, or other casualty involving a vessel, the operator thereof, if the collision, accident, or other casualty results in death or injury to a person or damage to property in excess of two thousand dollars ($2,000), shall within 10 days file with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources a full description of the collision, accident, or other casualty, including such information as the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources by regulation may require. (c) All accident reports required by this section made by persons involved in accidents shall be without prejudice to the individuals so reporting and shall be for the confidential use of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources or other governmental agencies having use of the record; except, that the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources may disclose the identity of a person involved in an accident when the identity is not otherwise known or when the person denies his or her presence at the accident. No report shall be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of an accident; except, that the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall furnish upon demand of any person who has made, or claims to have made, such a report, or upon demand of any court, a certificate showing that a specified accident report has or has not been made to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources solely to prove a compliance or a failure to comply with the requirements that a report be made to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §22; Act 2009-151, p. 306, §1.)
AL Code § 33-5-26 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-26 - Water Skis and Aquaplanes.

Section 33-5-26Water skis and aquaplanes. (a) No person shall operate a vessel on any waters of this state for towing a person or persons, on water skis, or an aquaplane or any other recreational device, unless there is in the vessel a person, in addition to the operator, who is at least 12 years of age and is observing and is capable of communicating to the operator of the vessel the progress and safety of the person or persons being towed, or the vessel is equipped with a wide angle mirror with a viewing surface of at least 78 square inches and a field of vision of at least 170 degrees. (b) No person shall operate a vessel on any waters of this state towing a person or persons on water skis, aquaplane or any other recreational device, nor shall any person engage in water skiing, aquaplaning, or similar activity, at any time between the hours from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise. (c) Subsections (a) and (b) of this section do not apply to a performer engaged in a professional exhibition or a person or persons participating in an official regatta, motorboat race, marine parade, tournament, or exhibition. (d) No person except in jump buoys and like objects used normally in competitive and recreational skiing shall operate or manipulate any vessel, tow rope, or other device by which the direction or location of water skis, aquaplane, or any other recreational device may be affected or controlled in a manner to cause the water skis, aquaplane, or other recreational device, or any person thereon, to collide with or strike against any object or person. (e) Subsection (a) shall not apply to personal watercraft as defined in Section 33-5-51. (f) Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor, punishable upon conviction as provided in Sections 13A-5-7 and 13A-5-12. Any person so convicted shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100). (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §24; Acts 1994, No. 94-652, p. 1243, §23.)
AL Code § 33-5-27 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-27 - Regattas, Races, Marine Parades, Tournaments and Exhibitions.

Section 33-5-27Regattas, races, marine parades, tournaments and exhibitions. (a) The commissioner shall adopt and may from time to time amend regulations concerning the safety of vessels and persons thereon, either observers of or participants, in any regatta, motorboat or other boat race, marine parade, tournament or exhibition. (b) Any person or organization sponsoring a regatta, motorboat or other boat race, marine parade, tournament or exhibition shall be responsible for providing adequate protection from marine traffic interference and hazards. (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §25.)
AL Code § 33-5-28 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-28 - Rules and Regulations - Power of Commissioner to Promulgate.

Section 33-5-28Rules and regulations - Power of commissioner to promulgate. The Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall make, adopt, promulgate, amend and repeal all rules and regulations necessary or convenient for the carrying out of the duties and obligations and powers conferred on the said Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources by this article. Further clarifying the rule-making power of the commissioner, he shall have power and authority to make, adopt, promulgate, amend and repeal all rules and regulations as shall promote safety for persons and property in and connected with the use, operation and equipment of vessels and for the carrying out of duties, obligations and powers conferred upon the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources by this article, subject to such supervision of the Advisory Board of Conservation and Natural Resources as set out in Section 9-2-15. (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §28.)
AL Code § 33-5-29 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-29 - Rules and Regulations - Filing and Publication.

Section 33-5-29Rules and regulations - Filing and publication. A copy of the regulations adopted pursuant to this article, and of any amendments thereto, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and in the office of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Rules and regulations may be published by the commissioner in a convenient form. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall cause to be publicized, by the issuance of newspaper releases, new or amended or rescinded rules and regulations promulgated by him. (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §27.)
AL Code § 33-5-30 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-30 - Rules and Regulations - Admissibility as Evidence.

Section 33-5-30Rules and regulations - Admissibility as evidence. All rules and regulations duly promulgated under the provisions of this article by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall be admitted as evidence in the courts of this state when accompanied by an affidavit from the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources certifying that the rule or regulation has been lawfully adopted and promulgated and such affidavit shall be prima facie evidence of proper adoption and promulgation of the rule or regulation. (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §29.)
AL Code § 33-5-31 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-31 - Local Regulation.

Section 33-5-31Local regulation. (a) The provisions of this article and rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, and other general laws of this state shall govern the operation, equipment, numbering and all other matters relating thereto whenever any vessel shall be operated on the waters of this state, or when any activity regulated by this article shall take place thereon, but nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the adoption of any ordinance or local law relating to operation of vessels the provisions of which are identical to the provisions of this article, amendments thereto or regulations issued thereunder; provided, that such ordinances or local laws shall be operative only so long as and to the extent that they continue to be identical to provisions of this article, amendments thereto or regulations issued thereunder. (b) Any subdivision of this state may, at any time, but only after public notice, make formal application to the commissioner for special rules and regulations with reference to the operation of vessels on any waters within its territorial limits and shall set forth therein the reasons which make such special rules or regulations necessary or appropriate. The public notice shall be effected by the said subdivision causing a copy of the proposed public rules or regulations to be published one time per week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the area that the subdivision is located. (c) The commissioner is hereby authorized to make special rules and regulations with reference to the operation of vessels on any waters within the territorial limits of any subdivision of this state. (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §26.)
AL Code § 33-5-32 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-32 - Jurisdiction of Offenses; Disposition of Fines.

Section 33-5-32Jurisdiction of offenses; disposition of fines. District courts of any county of the State of Alabama shall have and are hereby given final jurisdiction to try and convict persons, firms or corporations violating any of the provisions of this chapter or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, subject to any proper appeal; and they shall remit to the commissioner, on or before the tenth day of each month, all fines and forfeitures collected by them for the violation of such laws, rules and regulations, together with a statement of the name of the person, firm or corporation convicted of such violation, the time of such conviction, the amount of the fine or penalty, the date of the remittance, and the specific charge for which the defendant was tried. (Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §30.)
AL Code § 33-5-33 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5 - Registration and Operation of Vessels.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 33-5-33 - Fees in Certain Prosecutions.

Section 33-5-33Fees in certain prosecutions. In all misdemeanor cases for violations of the provisions of this article and regulations promulgated thereunder, and in all misdemeanor cases for violation of future laws, the enforcement of which is assigned to the Marine Police Division of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, cognizable in district courts or circuit courts, where the defendant pleads guilty and no appeal is taken, no fee shall be taxed or collected in said court for trial tax, district attorney's fee or entering judgment in such cases. (Acts 1967, No. 288, p. 817.)