Terms Used In North Dakota Code > Chapter 20.1-13 - Boating Regulation

• Aquatic nuisance species: means any nonindigenous, obligate aquatic species of plant or animal which is injurious to native and desirable aquatic species or which has a negative effect on aquatic habitats, environment, or the economy of the state. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Associated equipment: means :

  a. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02

• Boat: means any vessel:

  a. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02

• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the game and fish department. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Director: means the director of the department. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Manufacturer: means any person engaged in:

  a. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02

• Motorboat: means any vessel propelled by machinery, whether or not the machinery is the principal source of propulsion. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Operate: means to navigate or otherwise use a motorboat or a vessel. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Owner: means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property in or title to a motorboat. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Passenger: means every person carried on board a vessel other than:

  a. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02

• Person: includes every partnership, association, corporation, and limited liability company. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Personal watercraft: means a motorboat that is powered by an inboard motor powering a water jet pump or by an inboard or outboard marine engine and which is designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing, or kneeling on the craft, rather than in a conventional manner of sitting or standing inside a motorboat. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Possession: means control, actual possession, and constructive possession of the article or thing specified. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Rule: includes regulation. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• sale: means any sale or offer to sell, or possession with intent to sell, use, or dispose of, the article or thing specified, contrary to law. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Slow or no wake speed: means the slowest possible speed necessary to maintain steerage. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Species: includes any subspecies of wildlife and any other group of wildlife of the same species or smaller taxa in common spatial arrangement that interbreed when mature. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
• Vessel: means any watercraft, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Waters of the state: means all waters of this state, including boundary waters. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• Wildlife: means any member of the animal kingdom including any mammal, fish, bird (including any migratory, nonmigratory, or endangered bird for which protection is also afforded by treaty or other international agreement), amphibian, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, or other invertebrate, and includes any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof, or the dead body or parts thereof. See North Dakota Code 20.1-01-02
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33