1. Persons engaged in the aquatic sports known as skin or scuba diving shall mark their general location within or under the water with a red flag with a diagonal white bar to be displayed on the water or from a boat or raft in the vicinity of the diver’s location. All diving shall be within a fifty-yard radius of said flag. No warning flag shall be placed as to impede the normal flow of motorboat traffic.

2. No boat operator shall knowingly operate within fifty yards of such flag.

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 306.217

  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • 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
  • Operator: the person who operates or has charge of the navigation or use of 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
  • water patrol division: the division responsible for enforcing the provisions of this chapter on the waters of this state. See Missouri Laws 306.010

3. The water patrol division shall prescribe and define the size and method of locating the warning flag mentioned in subsection 1 of this section.

4. Any person who violates subsection 1 or 2 of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided by law.

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