A certificate of title which is issued on or after January 1, 2005, shall disclose in writing, from any records readily accessible to the Department of Motor Vehicles or county officials or a peace officer, anything which indicates that the motorboat was previously issued a title in another jurisdiction that bore any word or symbol signifying that the motorboat was damaged, including, but not limited to, older model salvage, unrebuildable, parts only, scrap, junk, nonrepairable, reconstructed, rebuilt, flood damaged, damaged, or any other indication, symbol, or word of like kind, and the name of the jurisdiction issuing the previous title.

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 37-1295

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Motorboat: shall mean any watercraft propelled in any respect by machinery, including watercraft temporarily equipped with detachable motors, but shall not include a vessel which has a valid marine document issued by the Bureau of Customs of the United States Government or any federal agency successor thereto. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1204
  • Peace officer: shall include sheriffs, coroners, jailers, marshals, police officers, state highway patrol officers, members of the National Guard on active service by direction of the Governor during periods of emergency, and all other persons with similar authority to make arrests. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
  • Salvage: means the designation of a motorboat which is:

    (a) A late model motorboat which has been wrecked, damaged, or destroyed to the extent that the estimated total cost of repair to rebuild or reconstruct the motorboat to its condition immediately before it was wrecked, damaged, or destroyed and to restore the motorboat to a condition for legal operation, meets or exceeds seventy-five percent of the retail value of the motorboat at the time it was wrecked, damaged, or destroyed. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1292

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