New Jersey Statutes 12:7-71. Definitions
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 12:7-71
- Commission: means the Boat Regulation Commission established pursuant to section 14 of P. See New Jersey Statutes 12:7-71
- Department: means the Department of Law and Public Safety. See New Jersey Statutes 12:7-71
- Director: means the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Transportation. See New Jersey Statutes 12:7-71
- Division: means the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Transportation. See New Jersey Statutes 12:7-71
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Motor: means a temporarily or permanently installed fuel consuming mechanism by which the vessel is or may be propelled, including an electrical motor. See New Jersey Statutes 12:7-71
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Owner: means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property in or title to a vessel. See New Jersey Statutes 12:7-71
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Personal watercraft: means a personal watercraft as defined by section 1 of P. See New Jersey Statutes 12:7-71
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Vessel: means a boat or watercraft, other than a sea plane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See New Jersey Statutes 12:7-71
“Commission” means the Boat Regulation Commission established pursuant to section 14 of P.L.1962, c.73 (C. 12:7-34.49);
“Department” means the Department of Law and Public Safety;
“Director” means the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Transportation;
“Division” means the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Transportation;
“Documented vessel” means a vessel which has a valid Marine Document issued by the United States Coast Guard or any Federal agency successor thereto;
“Length” means measurement from end to end over the deck parallel to the centerline excluding sheer, bowsprits, bumpkins, rudders, outboard motors, brackets or other equipment or appendages;
“Motor” means a temporarily or permanently installed fuel consuming mechanism by which the vessel is or may be propelled, including an electrical motor;
“Operate” means to navigate, use, control or command a vessel;
“Operator” means every person having charge, control, operation or direction of any vessel and the owner of the vessel if the owner is on the vessel at the time it is operated in violation of the law;
“Owner” means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property in or title to a vessel. The term includes a person entitled to the use or possession of the vessel subject to an interest of another person, reserved or created by agreement and securing payment or performance of an obligation, but the term excludes a lessee under a lease not intended as security;
“Personal watercraft” means a personal watercraft as defined by section 1 of P.L.1993, c.299 (C. 12:7-62);
“Pontoon boat” means a vessel supported by one or more cylindrical floats and propelled by an inboard or outboard motor;
“Power vessel” means a vessel temporarily or permanently equipped with machinery for propulsion, including a personal watercraft, and shall not include a vessel propelled wholly by sails or by muscular power;
“Sailboat” means any boat whose sole source of propulsion is the wind;
“Vessel” means a boat or watercraft, other than a sea plane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water; and
“Waters of this State” means all waters within the jurisdiction of this State, both tidal and nontidal, and the marginal sea adjacent to this State to a distance of three nautical miles from the shoreline.
L.1995, c.401, s.2; amended 2015, c.307, s.1.