Nevada Administrative Code › Chapter 488 - Watercraft › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 488.010 - Definitions

Current through June 11, 2024
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise
				requires:
1. "Air thrust" means a
			 method of propulsion by which a vessel is propelled by a type of propeller that
			 is used by aircraft and powered by an engine.
2. "Airboat" has the meaning ascribed to it
			 in 33 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
3. "Auxiliary sail" has the meaning ascribed
			 to it in
			 33
			 C.F.R §
									174.3.
4. "Cabin motorboat" has the meaning ascribed
			 to it in
			 33
			 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
5. "Certificate of number" means a permanent
			 or temporary document issued by the Department for a vessel for which the state
			 of principal operation is this State.
6. "Charter fishing" has the meaning ascribed
			 to it in
			 33
			 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
7. "Commercial fishing" has the meaning
			 ascribed to it in
			 33
			 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
8. "Commission" has the meaning ascribed to
			 it in
			 NRS
			 488.035.
9. "Demonstrating" or "demonstration" means
			 to operate a vessel on the waters of this State for the purpose of selling,
			 transferring, bartering, trading, negotiating or attempting to negotiate the
			 sale or exchange of any interest in a new or used vessel, including the
			 operation of the vessel by a manufacturer for purposes of testing the vessel.
			 The term does not include the operation of a vessel for personal purposes by a
			 dealer or manufacturer or an employee of a dealer or manufacturer, or by the
			 friends or the members of the families of those persons.
10. "Department" has the meaning ascribed to
			 it in
			 NRS
			 488.035.
11. "Flat wake" has the meaning ascribed to
			 it in
			 NRS
			 488.035.
12. "Houseboat" has the meaning ascribed to
			 in in
			 33
			 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
13. "Identification number" means the number
			 assigned by the Department to each vessel registered in accordance with chapter
			 488 of NRS.
14. "Inboard" has the
			 meaning ascribed to it in
			 33
			 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
15. "Inflatable boat" has the meaning
			 ascribed to it in
			 33
			 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
16. "Legal owner" has the meaning ascribed to
			 it in
			 NRS
			 488.035.
17. "Length" means the length of a vessel
			 measured in a straight line from one end of the hull to the other, excluding
			 the deck, bowsprits, bumpkins, rudders, outboard motor brackets and similar
			 fittings or attachments.
18.
			 "Livery" means the rent or lease for consideration of a vessel that is owned by
			 a business.
19. "Motorboat" has the
			 meaning ascribed to it in
			 NRS
			 488.035.
20. "Open motorboat" has the meaning ascribed
			 to it in
			 33
			 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
21. "Operate" has the meaning ascribed to it
			 in
			 NRS
			 488.035.
22. "Operator" has the meaning ascribed to it
			 in 33 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
23. "Outboard" has the meaning ascribed to it
			 in 33 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
24. "Owner" has the meaning ascribed to it in
			 NRS
			 488.035.
25. "Paddlecraft" has the meaning ascribed to
			 it in
			 33
			 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
26. "Person" has the meaning ascribed to it
			 in 33 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
27. "Personal watercraft" has the meaning
			 ascribed to it in
			 NRS
			 488.580.
28. "Pod drive" has the meaning ascribed to
			 it in
			 33
			 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
29. "Pontoon boat" has the meaning ascribed
			 to it in
			 33
			 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
30. "Registered owner" has the meaning
			 ascribed to it in
			 NRS
			 488.035.
31. "Rowboat" has the meaning ascribed to it
			 in 33 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
32. "Sail only" has the meaning ascribed to
			 it in
			 33
			 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
33. "State of principal operation" means the
			 state on whose waters a vessel is operated or to be operated for most of the
			 calendar year.
34. "Sterndrive" has
			 the meaning ascribed to it in
			 33
			 C.F.R. §
									174.3.
35. "Under way" has the meaning ascribed to
			 it in
			 NRS
			 488.035.
36. "Vessel" has the meaning ascribed to it
			 in
			 NRS
			 488.035.
37. "Waters of this State" has the meaning
			 ascribed to it in
			 NRS
			 488.035.
Bd. of Wildlife Comm'rs,
				Motorboat Reg. No. 100 § 1, eff. 2-10-82-NAC A 12-3-90; 12-16-92;
				11-23-94; 3-13-97; R206-97, 6-19-98; R122-03, 1-20-2004; A by
				R015-16A,
				eff. 9/9/2016
NRS
				488.045,
				501.181