Illinois Compiled Statutes 625 Vehicles: Article V - Operation Of Motorboats

• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-1
  Careless operation. No person shall operate any watercraft in a careless or heedless manner so as to endanger any person or property or at...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-2
  Reckless operation. (a) No person shall operate any watercraft, specialty prop-craft, personal watercraft or manipulate any water skis, aquaplane, or similar device in such a...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-3
  Interference with navigation. No person shall operate any watercraft in a manner which unreasonably or unnecessarily interferes with other watercraft or with the free...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-4
  Overloading. A. No motorboat may be loaded with passengers or cargo beyond its safe carrying capacity taking into consideration weather and other existing operating conditions....
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-5
  Incapacity of operator. The owner of any motorboat or any person having such in charge or in control shall not authorize or knowingly permit...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-6
  Overpowering. No motorboat shall be equipped with any motor or other propulsion machinery beyond its safe power capacity taking into consideration the type and...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-7
  Restricted areas. No person shall operate a watercraft within a water area that has been clearly marked by buoys or some other distinguishing device...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-12
  A wake is defined as a movement of the water created by a boat underway great enough to disturb a boat at rest, but...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-13
  Traffic rules. A. Passing. When 2 boats are approaching each other "head on" or nearly so (so as to involve risk of collision), each...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-14
  Towing of persons. A. No person may operate a motorboat that has in tow or is otherwise assisting a person on water skis, an aquaplane,...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-15
  Regattas and races. A. The Department may authorize the holding of regattas, motorboat or other boat races on any waters of this State. It...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-16
  Operating a watercraft under the influence of alcohol, other drug or drugs, intoxicating compound or compounds, or combination thereof. (A) 1. A person shall not...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-16a
  Admissibility of chemical tests of blood or urine conducted in the regular course of providing emergency medical treatment. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-16a.1
  Reporting of test results of blood or urine conducted in the regular course of providing emergency medical treatment. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-16b
  Preliminary breath screening test. If a law enforcement officer has reasonable suspicion to believe that a person is violating or has violated Section 5-16...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-16c
  Operator involvement in personal injury or fatal boating accident; chemical tests. (a) Any person who operates or is in actual physical control of a motorboat...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-17
  The Department is authorized and empowered to establish a system of regulatory aids on the waters of the State in accordance with United States...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-18
  (a) Beginning on January 1, 2016, no person born on or after January 1, 1998, unless exempted by subsection (i), shall operate a motorboat with...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-19
  Skin diving. (A) 1. No person may engage in underwater diving or swimming with the use of swimming fins or skin diving in waters...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-20
  Unlawful operation at night. Beginning July 1, 1994, no person shall operate a personal watercraft or a specialty prop craft between the hours of...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-21
  Passenger location. No person operating a motorboat shall allow a person in the motorboat to ride or sit on the gunwales, tops of seat...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-22
  Operation of watercraft upon the approach of an authorized emergency watercraft. (a) As used in this Section, "authorized emergency watercraft" includes any watercraft operated by...
• Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act. - 625 ILCS 45, Section 5-23
  Transportation of aquatic plants and animals; placement of objects in navigable waters. (a) No person may place or operate a vehicle, seaplane, watercraft, or other...

Last modified: February 18, 2015