California Harbors and Navigation Code 550 – For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following …
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For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) A “vessel” includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation by water.
Terms Used In California Harbors and Navigation Code 550
- Vessel: includes ships of all kinds, steamboats, steamships, canal boats, barges, sailing vessels, and every structure adapted to be navigated from place to place for the transportation of merchandise or persons. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 21
(b) “Marine debris” is a vessel or part of a vessel, including a derelict, wreck, hulk, or part of any ship or other watercraft or dilapidated vessel, that is unseaworthy and not reasonably fit or capable of being made fit to be used as a means of transportation by water.
(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 645, Sec. 1. (AB 1323) Effective January 1, 2016.)