Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 15 - Navigation and Aeronautics › 121 - Boating Safety › Section 15-121-A1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in sections
				15-121-A2 to
				15-140j-3,
				inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Marker" means either a floating or a
			 fixed object to be used to aid or regulate waterway traffic. There shall be
			 three types of markers: regulatory, navigational and special purpose.
(b) "Steerage speed" means the minimum speed
			 necessary to allow a vessel to be steered while making forward
			 progress.
(c) "Bow" means the
			 forward half of a vessel.
(d)
			 "Hull" means the outside body of a vessel exclusive of the deck or any
			 superstructure, masts, or rigging.
(e) "Emergency" means a situation in which
			 life, limb, or property are at imminent and serious risk.
(f) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
			 Environmental Protection.
(g)
			 "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation or
			 other entity.
(h) "Town" includes
			 city, town, borough or any other political subdivision of the state.
(i) "PFD" means personal flotation device
			 bearing a United States Coast Guard approval number which indicates the
			 performance type of the device.
(j)
			 "Slow-No-Wake" means that a vessel shall not produce more than a minimum wake
			 and shall not attain speeds greater than 6 miles per hour over the ground
			 unless a higher minimum speed is necessary to maintain steerageway when
			 traveling with a strong current. In no case shall the wake produced by the
			 vessel be such that it creates a danger of injury to persons, or will damage
			 vessels or structures of any kind.
(k) "Federal waters" means the navigable
			 waters of the United States, as defined by
			 33
			 CFR 2.36(a), within the
			 territorial limits of the state.
(l) "State waters" means all waters within
			 the territorial limits of the state except federal waters.
(m) "Waters of the state" means all waters,
			 including federal waters, within the territorial limits of the state.
(n) "marine dealer" means a person engaged in
			 the business of manufacturing, selling or repairing new or used
			 vessels.
(o) "marine engine
			 manufacturer" means a person engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling
			 or repairing marine engines.
(p)
			 "marine surveyor" means a person who is certified by the National Association
			 of Marine Surveyors or accredited by the Society of Accredited Marine Surveyors
			 and who is engaged in the business of inspection, survey or examination of
			 vessels or associated equipment to assess, monitor and report on the condition
			 of the vessel or associated equipment.
(q) "Airboat" means a vessel that is
			 typically flat-bottomed and propelled by an aircraft-type propeller that is
			 powered by an engine.
(r)
			 "Auxiliary sail" means a vessel with sail as its primary method of propulsion
			 and mechanical propulsion as its secondary method.
(s) "Cabin motorboat" means a vessel
			 propelled by propulsion machinery and providing enclosed spaces inside its
			 structure
(t) "Houseboat" means a
			 motorized vessel that is usually non-planing and designed primarily for
			 multi-purpose accommodation spaces with low freeboard and little or no foredeck
			 or cockpit.
(u) "Hull
			 identification number" or "HIN" means a number required by
			 33 CFR
			 181.23.
(v) "Inboard", in the context of an engine,
			 means an engine mounted inside the confines of a vessel which powers a drive
			 shaft that turns a water jet impeller or that runs through the bottom of the
			 hull and is attached to a propeller at the other end.
(w) "Inflatable boat" means a vessel that
			 uses air-filled flexible fabric for buoyancy.
(x) "Open motorboat" means a vessel equipped
			 with propulsion machinery and having an open load carrying area that does not
			 have a continuous deck to protect it from the entry of water.
(y) "Outboard", in the context of an engine,
			 means an engine with propeller or water jet integrally attached, which is
			 usually mounted at the stern of a vessel.
(z) "Overall length of vessel" means the
			 horizontal distance between the foremost part of the stem and the aftermost
			 part of the stern, excluding bowsprits, bumpkins, rudders, outboard motor
			 brackets and similar fittings or attachments, as reported on the manufacturer's
			 certificate of origin or builder's certificate for the subject vessel; or
			 absent such certificate of origin or builder's certificate, as reported on a
			 current or expired certificate of number or certificate of documentation for
			 the subject vessel issued by a governmental agency; or absent such certificate
			 of origin, certificate of number, builder's certificate or certificate of
			 documentation, as measured by the owner.
(aa) "Paddlecraft" means a vessel powered
			 only by its occupants, using a single or double- bladed paddle as a lever
			 without the aid of a fulcrum provided by oarlocks, thole pins, crutches, or
			 similar arrangements.
(bb) "Pod
			 drive" means an engine mounted in front of the transom of a vessel and attached
			 through the bottom of the hull to a steerable propulsion unit.
(cc) "Pontoon boat" means a vessel with a
			 broad, flat deck that is affixed on top of closed cylinders which are used for
			 buoyancy, the basic design of which is usually implemented with two rows of
			 floats as a catamaran or with three rows of floats as a trimaran.
(dd) "Rowboat" means an open vessel manually
			 propelled by oars.
(ee) "Sail only"
			 means a vessel propelled only by sails.
(ff) "State of principal operation" or "State
			 of principal use" means the state in whose waters a vessel is or will be
			 operated most during a calendar year.
(gg) "Sterndrive" means an engine, powering a
			 propeller through a series of shafts and gears, mounted in front of the transom
			 of a vessel and attached through the transom to a drive unit that is similar to
			 the lower unit of an outboard; and may also be known as an inboard-outdrive or
			 an inboard-outboard.