California Harbors and Navigation Code CHAPTER 2 - Penalties

• Section 250.
  When steam vessels meet each shall turn to the right, so as to pass without interference.(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
• Section 251.
  When a passenger is to be landed from a steam vessel by means of a small boat, he shall not be permitted to get into...
• Section 252.
  No line used for the purpose of landing or receiving passengers may be attached in any way to the machinery of any steam vessel nor...
• Section 253.
  During the landing and receiving of a passenger, and the going and returning of the small boat for the purpose, the engine shall be stopped,...
• Section 254.
  There shall be kept in every small boat a good and suitable pair of oars. In the night-time a signal, by means of a horn...
• Section 255.
  A steam vessel going in the same direction as a steam vessel ahead of it shall not approach or pass within the distance of ten...
• Section 256.
  When any steam vessel is running in the night-time the master shall cause to be shown two conspicuous lights, one exposed near the bow and...
• Section 257.
  Every person in charge of a steam vessel who violates any of the provisions of the preceding seven sections, incurs a penalty of two hundred...
• Section 258.
  The person in charge of any vessel at anchor in the night-time in any of the harbors or ports within the jurisdiction of this state,...
• Section 259.
  Neither the master nor the owner of any vesel can recover damages for injuries to the vessel or to himself resulting from a collision growing...
• Section 260.
  Every raft of timber floated on the Sacramento or San Joaquin rivers at night which fails to show two red lights, one at each end,...
• Section 261.
  Every steam vessel navigating any waters of this State and carrying passengers, shall be equipped with boats as follows:(a) If of five hundred tons measurement, one...
• Section 262.
  Every master or owner, and each of them, of any vessel not provided with boats as required by this chapter, incurs a penalty of not...
• Section 263.
  Every person in charge of a steam vessel navigating any of the waters of this State which is used for the conveyance of passengers, and...
• Section 264.
  (a) A captain or other person having charge of any steam vessel used for the conveyance of passengers, or of its boilers and engines, who, from...
• Section 265.
  The owners of every steam vessel are responsible for the good conduct of the master or other person in charge employed by them, and they...
• Section 266.
  The penalties established by this chapter may be recovered by the district attorney of any county bordering on the water where the offense was committed...
• Section 268.
  (a) Counties or cities may adopt restrictions concerning the navigation and operation of vessels and water skis, aquaplanes, or similar devices subject to the provisions of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018