California Harbors and Navigation Code ARTICLE 4 - Charter Boat Safety

• Section 773.
  The Legislature finds and declares that the charter boat industry operates in the public interest by providing jobs, nutritious food, education, recreation, and joy for...
• Section 773.1.
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Charter Boat Safety Act of 1983.(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1049, Sec. 1. Effective...
• Section 773.2.
  As used in this article, the following definitions shall apply:(a) “For-hire vessel” means a for-hire vessel as defined in Section 4661 of the Public Utilities Code,...
• Section 773.3.
  No person shall take or offer to take seven or more passengers on a charter boat unless the vessel is licensed by the United States...
• Section 773.4.
  (a) No operator or charterer shall prevent any person from complying with, or direct any person to violate, any provision of this article, or direct the...
• Section 773.5.
  The operator of a charter boat, or the operator’s employee or agent, shall require each passenger to don a life preserver under any of the...
• Section 773.6.
  An operator, or the operator’s employee or agent, who directs the passengers to the life preservers while announcing that the passengers are required for their...
• Section 773.7.
  The operator, or the operator’s employee or agent, of a charter boat, prior to getting underway, shall orient each passenger concerning emergency procedures. A public...
• Section 773.8.
  (a) A charterer or operator who organizes charter boat trips shall inform each adult passenger as soon as practicable after the passenger contracts or pays for...
• Section 774.
  (a) Every charterer and every charter boat operator shall include in all advertising for any charter trips in the coastal zone, as defined in Section 30103...
• Section 774.1.
  No operator of a for-hire vessel shall leave or enter Morro Bay after being directed by the harbormaster of the harbor not to do so...
• Section 774.2.
  The operation of Section 655, 773.5, 773.7, or 774.1 or subdivision (b) of Section 773.8 shall be suspended if the Coast Guard or other appropriate...
• Section 774.3.
  (a) Except as provided in Section 774, violation of any provision of this article is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than six months...
• Section 774.4.
  (a) This article does not impose any mandatory duties upon any public entity to monitor sea or weather conditions or to warn or prevent vessels from...

Last modified: October 22, 2018