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).