Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 15 - Navigation and Aeronautics › 140f - Boating Safety › Section 15-140f-3 - Issuance of safe boating certificates

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Any person
			 required by subsection (a) of Section
			 15-140e
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes to obtain a safe boating certificate shall
			 apply to the Commissioner for such certificate on a form provided by the
			 Commissioner. The applicant shall provide the following information on the
			 form: the applicant's name, address, date of birth, place of birth, phone
			 number, sex, hair color, eye color, and height. Proof of identity shall be
			 required as provided in subsection (a) of Section
			 14-137-67
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, except that a valid
			 Connecticut motor vehicle operator's license with photograph of the applicant,
			 or an acknowledgment of the identity of the applicant, taken by a person
			 authorized by Section
			 1-29
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes to take such acknowledgment, if submitted
			 as part of the application shall be conclusive proof of the identity of the
			 applicant.
(b) A safe boating
			 certificate issued to any person less than twelve years of age shall have a
			 notation thereon that the holder of such certificate shall not operate a vessel
			 with a motor of greater than ten horsepower unless he is under the on-board
			 supervision of a person at least eighteen years of age who has been issued a
			 safe boating certificate.
(c) Each
			 safe boating certificate issued by the Commissioner shall be assigned a boat
			 operator number unique to the person to whom such certificate is issued and the
			 same number shall be assigned to any duplicates of such certificate. Only one
			 safe boating certificate and boat operator number shall be assigned to any
			 person and no person shall apply for or obtain more than one such certificate
			 or number.
(d) No person shall make
			 a material false statement on an application to obtain a safe boating
			 certificate or duplicate certificate and every statement made on any such
			 application shall be upon oath or affirmation. The certificate of any person
			 who knowingly makes a material false statement, or provides insufficient funds
			 for payment of applicable fees, or obtains any certificate to which he is not
			 entitled, shall be null and void.
(e) No person shall alter or deface a safe
			 boating certificate or a duplicate certificate, and no person shall exhibit to
			 any enforcement officer identified in Section
			 15-154
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes, a certificate or duplicate certificate
			 which has been altered or defaced, or a certificate or duplicate certificate
			 other than the one issued to him.
(f) Duplicates of safe boating certificates
			 may be issued by the Commissioner only to applicants who change their legal
			 name or to applicants whose certificate is lost, stolen, or destroyed upon
			 application to the Commissioner on a form provided by the Commissioner. Every
			 statement made on any such application shall be upon oath or affirmation.
			 Information to be provided by the applicant may include any or all of the items
			 which the Commissioner, in his sole discretion, deems required for issuance of
			 an original certificate. Any person to whom a duplicate certificate is issued
			 who subsequently finds or has returned to him the original or previous
			 duplicate of such certificate shall, within five days, return his last-issued
			 certificate to the Boating Division of the Department of Environmental
			 Protection.
(g) Temporary safe
			 boating certificates shall be subject to the same provisions regarding issuance
			 of safe boating certificates set forth in subsections (a) through (f) of this
			 section. Each application for a temporary certificate shall be accompanied by a
			 certificate of number or certificate of decal issued to the applicant for his
			 vessel on the date of vessel registration. Temporary certificates shall expire
			 in three months from the date of vessel registration as is provided for in
			 Section
			 15-140e(c)
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes. No person shall be issued more than one
			 temporary safe boating certificate and issuance of a temporary certificate
			 shall not entitle the holder thereof to issuance of a lifetime certificate as
			 provided for by subsection (a) of Section
			 15-140e
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
(h) Any person applying for a safe boating
			 certificate by providing proof that he has successfully completed an approved
			 course in safe boating operation shall provide with his application the
			 original document demonstrating successful course completion, or a copy
			 thereof, or an original statement, written on the letterhead of and signed by
			 an authorized representative of the agency or organization which gave such
			 course, attesting to the existence of records which show that the applicant
			 successfully completed such course. The Commissioner may waive such requirement
			 of proof when verification is obtained from records of the Commissioner which
			 show such approved course in safe boating operation was successfully
			 completed.
(i) Any person applying
			 for a safe boating certificate by providing proof that he has successfully
			 passed an equivalency examination shall provide with his application the
			 original document demonstrating that the applicant passed such examination. The
			 Commissioner may waive such requirement of proof when verification is obtained
			 from records of the Commissioner which show such examination was
			 passed.