Missouri Laws 306.122 – Motorboat or vessel operator, minimum age, exceptions, penalty
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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 306.122
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Guardian: if used in a section in a context relating to property rights or obligations, means conservator of the estate as defined in chapter 475. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Motorboat: any vessel propelled by machinery, whether or not such machinery is a principal source of propulsion. See Missouri Laws 306.010
- Operate: to navigate or otherwise use a motorboat or a vessel. See Missouri Laws 306.010
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Vessel: every motorboat and every description of motorized watercraft, and any watercraft more than twelve feet in length which is powered by sail alone or by a combination of sail and machinery, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, but not any watercraft having as the only means of propulsion a paddle or oars. See Missouri Laws 306.010
- Waters of this state: any waters within the territorial limits of this state and lakes constructed or maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers except bodies of water owned by a person, corporation, association, partnership, municipality or other political subdivision, public water supply impoundments, and except drainage ditches constructed by a drainage district, but the term does include any body of water which has been leased to or owned by the state department of conservation. See Missouri Laws 306.010
No person under fourteen years of age shall operate any motorboat or vessel upon the waters of this state unless such person is under the direct on-board supervision of a parent, guardian or other person sixteen years of age or older, or unless the motorboat is moored. No person shall authorize or knowingly permit a motorboat owned by such person or under the person’s control to be operated on the waters of this state in violation of this section, nor shall a parent or guardian authorize or knowingly permit such a child, under fourteen years of age, to operate a motorboat in violation of this section.