CSHB 93(FIN): "An Act relating to boating safety, registration, and numbering; extending the sunset date of changes in ch. 28, SLA 2000; and providing for an effective date."
00 CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 93(FIN) 01 "An Act relating to boating safety, registration, and numbering; extending the sunset 02 date of changes in ch. 28, SLA 2000; and providing for an effective date." 03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 04 * Section 1. AS 05.25.055(a) is amended to read: 05 (a) An undocumented boat placed on water of the state must be registered and 06 numbered as required by this chapter. The Department of Administration shall adopt 07 by regulation a boat registration and numbering system that 08 [(1) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN (2) OF THIS SUBSECTION,] is 09 consistent with the national standard for state numbering systems established by the 10 United States Coast Guard [; AND 11 (2) USES A SIZE-APPROPRIATE DECAL FOR A BOAT THAT IS 12 NOT EQUIPPED WITH MECHANICAL PROPULSION, THAT IS EXCLUSIVELY 13 PADDLED, POLED, ROWED, OR POWERED BY WIND, AND THAT IS 10 FEET 14 OR GREATER IN LENGTH].
01 * Sec. 2. AS 05.25.055(i) is amended to read: 02 (i) The following boats are exempt from the numbering and registration 03 provisions of this section: 04 (1) a boat that is operated in this state for a period not exceeding 90 05 consecutive days and that has a current, valid certificate of number issued by another 06 state having a federally approved numbering system; 07 (2) a foreign boat operated in water of the state for a period not 08 exceeding 90 consecutive days; 09 (3) a boat owned by the United States or an entity or political 10 subdivision of the United States, or a boat owned by a state or an entity or political 11 subdivision of a state; 12 (4) a boat that is not equipped with mechanical propulsion [, THAT IS 13 EXCLUSIVELY PADDLED, POLED, ROWED, OR POWERED BY WIND, AND 14 THAT IS 15 (A) UNDER 10 FEET IN LENGTH; OR 16 (B) OPERATED IN THIS STATE FOR A PERIOD NOT 17 EXCEEDING 30 DAYS IN A CALENDAR YEAR BY A PERSON WHO 18 HAS NOT ESTABLISHED RESIDENCY AS DESCRIBED UNDER 19 AS 01.10.055]; 20 (5) a boat with a valid document to operate the boat that is issued by 21 the United States or a foreign government. 22 * Sec. 3. Section 30, ch. 28, SLA 2000, is amended to read: 23 Sec. 30. Sections 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, 26, and 27 of this Act take effect 24 on the earlier of the following dates: 25 (1) July 1, 2010 [2005]; or 26 (2) 90 days after the date the chair of the Alaska Legislative Council 27 notifies the revisor of statutes that in the previous state fiscal year the state did not 28 receive and does not anticipate receiving federal funding for a statewide boating and 29 safety education program; the director of the division of legislative finance shall notify 30 the chair of the Alaska Legislative Council when the state, in the previous fiscal year, 31 did not receive federal funding for a statewide boating and safety program; the chair of
01 the Alaska Legislative Council may not give the notice described in this paragraph 02 unless the notice is approved by a vote of a majority of the members of the Alaska 03 Legislative Council. 04 * Sec. 4. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).