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Harbors and Navigation Code

Operation of Vessel

651.5.  The Department of Motor Vehicles shall provide every person who originally registers, or who acquires the ownership certificate of, a vessel required to be numbered pursuant to Division 3.5 (commencing with Section 9840) of the Vehicle Code with a copy of guidelines for safe vessel operation prepared by the Department of Boating and Waterways.

(Amended Ch. 216, Stats. 1988. Effective January 1, 1989.)