Iowa Code 462A.6A – Exemption from display of registration and capacity numbers
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The following vessels are exempt from displaying a registration number and a passenger capacity number as required in section 462A.5:
1. Authentically constructed native American styled craft including birchbark canoes, dugout canoes, competitive racing shells, reed boats, and skin-covered canoes or boats.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 462A.6A
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Passenger: means a person carried on board a vessel, including the operator, and anyone towed by a vessel on water skis, surfboards, inner tubes, or similar devices. See Iowa Code 462A.2
- Sailboard: means a windsurfing vessel with a mount for a sail, a daggerboard, and a small skeg. See Iowa Code 462A.2
- United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Vessel: means every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water or ice. See Iowa Code 462A.2
2. Historically styled craft such as keel boats used only during historic recreations or public demonstrations.
3. A vessel which has a valid marine document issued by the United States coast guard and the vessel bears the identification required in the document.
4. A sailboard. However, the registration decal shall be attached to the bottom surface of the bow.