California Harbors and Navigation Code 308 – A person who moors a vessel of any kind, to a buoy or beacon, except …
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A person who moors a vessel of any kind, to a buoy or beacon, except a designated mooring buoy, placed in the waters of the state by authority of the United States Coast Guard, or who in any manner hangs on to the same, with a vessel, or who willfully removes, damages, or destroys any such buoy or beacon, or any part of the buoy or beacon, or who cuts down, removes, damages, or destroys a beacon erected on land in this state by that authority, is, for every offense, guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 610, Sec. 26. (SB 717) Effective January 1, 2010.)
Terms Used In California Harbors and Navigation Code 308
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, limited liability company, business trust, corporation, or company. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 19
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 20
- Vessel: includes ships of all kinds, steamboats, steamships, canal boats, barges, sailing vessels, and every structure adapted to be navigated from place to place for the transportation of merchandise or persons. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 21