Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.12

  • Dealer: means any person who engages wholly or in part in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging for value new or used vessels or outboard motors, or both, either outright or on conditional sale, bailment, lease, chattel mortgage, or otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • Department: means the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and its duly authorized representatives. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • Outboard motor: means a mechanical combustion engine manufactured to produce a twenty-five or more horsepower engine and designed to attach outboard of the transom of a vessel. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • Vessel: means every description of watercraft and air boats, including homemade boats, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, valued in excess of two thousand five hundred dollars, to be principally operated on the waters of this state, required to be numbered, not held as inventory for sale or lease, and transferred for the first time on or after July 1, 2008. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2

Every dealer shall maintain for at least three years a record of any vessel or outboard motor bought, sold, exchanged, or received for sale or exchange.  This record shall be available for inspection by department representatives during reasonable business hours.

Acts 2007, No. 319, §2, eff. July 1, 2008; H.C.R. No. 25, 2008 R.S., eff. May 28, 2008; Acts 2009, No. 508, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.