Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 250 - OREGON STATE MARINE BOARD › Division 10 - STATEWIDE RULES › Section 250-010-0010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
As used in OAR Chapter 250, unless otherwise required by
				context:
(1) "Aquatic Invasive Species
			 Prevention Permit" is an authorization issued by the Oregon State Marine Board
			 or through designated agents that certifies payment to the Aquatic Invasive
			 Species Prevention Fund.
(2) "Black
			 Waste" means human body wastes including feces, urine, other substances of
			 bodily origin, and toilet paper.
(3) "Board" means the Oregon State Marine
			 Board.
(4) "Boat Livery" means a
			 person, persons, or a business establishment engaged in renting or hiring out
			 boats for profit.
(5)
			 "Eleemosynary" means an organization supported by gifts or charity which is
			 operated primarily as a part of organized activities for the purpose of
			 teaching youth's scout craft, camping, seamanship, self-reliance, patriotism,
			 courage and kindred virtues.
(6)
			 "Float Tube" means a manufactured floating device constructed of canvas, nylon
			 or other similar material encasing an inner tube capable of supporting one
			 person sitting inside with their legs dangling below the vessel, used as a
			 means of transportation on the water. Single float tubes are boats as defined
			 in ORS 830.005(2) and
			 if powered by machinery, single float tubes are motorboats as defined in ORS
			 830.005(5) and
			 subject to numbering according to OAR 250-010-0040.
(7) "Kiteboard" means a vessel with no
			 freeboard that is propelled by a sail or sail-like device that is not attached
			 to the vessel but held and manipulated by the operator. These vessels include
			 those common for kiteboarding, wingfoiling, and kitefoiling.
(8) "Nonmotorized boat" means any watercraft
			 as defined in ORS 830.005(2), but
			 not a motorboat as defined in
			 830.005(6).
(9) "Operator" means the person who operates
			 or who has charge of the navigation or use of a boat.
(10) "Person" means an individual,
			 partnership, firm, corporation, association, or other entity.
(11) "Person on Board" means every person
			 being carried on board or being towed by a vessel.
(12) "Portable Toilet" means all types of
			 portable containers, hand carried potties, buckets or similar devices used to
			 collect black waste into a small receptacle.
(13) "Propel" means but is not limited to
			 floating, rowing, paddling, sailing or otherwise operating a boat (as defined
			 in ORS 830.005), a vessel or ship.
(14) "Sailboard" means a sail propelled
			 vessel with no freeboard and equipped with a swivel mounted mast not secured to
			 a hull by guys or stays.
(15)
			 "Sewage" means water-carried human and animal wastes and may include but is not
			 solely kitchen, bath, and laundry wastes from residences, buildings, boats or
			 other places.
(16) "Ship's
			 Lifeboats" means lifeboats used solely for lifesaving purposes and does not
			 include dinghies, tenders, speedboats, or other types of craft carried aboard a
			 vessel and used for other than lifesaving purposes.
(17) "Slow-No Wake" means operating a boat at
			 the slowest speed necessary to maintain steerage and that reduces or eliminates
			 waves that appear as white water behind the boat.
(18) "Throwable Personal Flotation Device
			 (PFD)" means a PFD that is intended to be thrown to a person in the water. A
			 PFD marked as Type IV or Type V with Type IV performance is considered a
			 throwable PFD; unless specifically marked, a wearable PFD is not a throwable
			 PFD.
(19) "Type I Marine Sanitation
			 Device" means a device installed on board a boat that is designed to receive,
			 retain, treat, or discharge sewage or black waste, which produces an effluent
			 having a fecal coliform bacteria count not greater than 1,000 per 100 ml and no
			 visible floating solids.
(20) "Type
			 II Marine Sanitation Device" means a device installed on board a boat that is
			 designed to receive, retain, treat, or discharge sewage or black waste, which
			 produces an effluent having a fecal coliform bacteria count not greater than
			 200 per 100 ml and suspended solids not greater than 150 mg/L.
(21) "Type III Marine Sanitation Device"
			 means a device installed on board a boat that is designed to receive, retain,
			 treat, or discharge sewage or black waste, which is designed to prevent the
			 overboard discharge of treated or untreated sewage or any waste derived from
			 sewage. These include but are not limited to a holding tank with a means of
			 pumping the sewage into a land-based Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
			 approved wastewater treatment system.
(22) "Undocumented Vessel" means any vessel
			 which is not required to have, or does not have, a valid marine document issued
			 by the U.S. Coast Guard.
(23)
			 "Underway" means when a boat is not at anchor, or moored, or made fast to the
			 shore, or aground.
(24)
			 "Wakeboarding" means the activity of towing a person who is attached with two
			 foot bindings on equipment similar to a short surfboard or snowboard. Equipment
			 used in this activity may include but is not limited to wake boards.
(25) "Wake surfing" means the activity of
			 propelling a person, on equipment similar to a surfboard, forward with a boat's
			 wake. The person may be holding a rope or free riding. Equipment used in this
			 activity may include but is not limited to wake surf boards, wake boards, stand
			 up paddleboards, and hydrofoils.
(26) "Waterway Access Permit" is an
			 authorization issued by the Oregon State Marine Board or through designated
			 agents that certifies payment to the Waterway Access Fund.
(27) "Wearable Personal Flotation Device
			 (PFD)" means a PFD that is intended to be worn or otherwise attached to the
			 body. A PFD marked as Type I, Type II, Type III, or Type V with Type (I, II, or
			 III) performance is considered a wearable PFD.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
				  830.110
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
				  830.110