--- title: Title 52, Chapter 7. Registration, Operation, and Sale of Watercraft collection: code id: code:chapter:52-7 canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/title/52/chapter/7 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7.md date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-6.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-8.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md heading: REGISTRATION, OPERATION, AND SALE OF WATERCRAFT title_heading: WATERS OF THE STATE, PORTS, AND WATERCRAFT section_count: 67 full_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7.md?full=1 --- # Title 52, Chapter 7. Registration, Operation, and Sale of Watercraft Title 52. Waters of the State, Ports, and Watercraft 67 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue). - 52-7-1, Short title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-1.md - 52-7-2, Declaration of policy, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-2.md - 52-7-3, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-3.md - 52-7-4, Requirement as to numbering of vessels; titling; requirements for hull damaged vessels, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-4.md - 52-7-5, Numbering of vessels; requirements; fees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-5.md - 52-7-6, Exemptions from numbering requirements, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-6.md - 52-7-7, Dealers’ vessels, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-7.md - 52-7-7.1, Hull identification numbers required; penalty for violations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-7.1.md - 52-7-7.2, Display of hull identification numbers on new vessels, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-7.2.md - 52-7-7.3, Seizure of vessels without hull identification numbers; seizure of related property; inspections, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-7.3.md - 52-7-7.4, Property not subject to replevin; report by law enforcement agency of seizure of property; procedures, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-7.4.md - 52-7-7.5, Counterfeit hull identification numbers; penalty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-7.5.md - 52-7-7.6, Exception to requirement for hull identification numbers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-7.6.md - 52-7-8, Classification of vessels; required equipment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-8.md - 52-7-8.1, Discharge of sewage from vessels on lakes; use of vessels with marine toilets on protected fresh waters; certificate and recordation requirements, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-8.1.md - 52-7-8.2, Restrictions on operation of personal watercraft, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-8.2.md - 52-7-8.3, Operation of watercraft; identification; operation by minors, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-8.3.md - 52-7-8.4, Definitions; anchorage restriction areas; permit requirement for long-term anchoring in estuarine areas; short-term anchoring; safe harbor; exceptions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-8.4.md - 52-7-9, Boat liveries, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-9.md - 52-7-10, Exhausts to be muffled; exemptions; noise level testing, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-10.md - 52-7-11, Lights, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-11.md - 52-7-12, Operation of watercraft while under influence of alcohol, toxic vapors, or drugs; legal drug use not exempted; blood and other chemical tests; test refusal; owner’s liability for allowing another to operate while intoxicated; civil and criminal actions; child endangerment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-12.md - 52-7-12.1, Reckless operation of vessel or other water device, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-12.1.md - 52-7-12.2, Homicide by vessel, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-12.2.md - 52-7-12.3, Feticide by vessel, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-12.3.md - 52-7-12.4, Serious injury by vessel, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-12.4.md - 52-7-12.5, Ordering drug, alcohol, or other substance tests; implied consent warning; reports; suspension; hearing; certificate of inspection, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-12.5.md - 52-7-12.6, Terms of suspension; return of operating privilege; operation when suspended, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-12.6.md - 52-7-12.7, Suspension of privileges to operate a vessel upon waters of this state for violations of vessel laws, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-12.7.md - 52-7-13, Boating safety zones; restrictions on use of motors and operation of houseboats on certain lakes; exceptions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-13.md - 52-7-13.1, Limitation on wakeboarding or wakesurfing, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-13.1.md - 52-7-14, Accident, collision, or other casualty; salvage rights, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-14.md - 52-7-15, Furnishing information to federal officials and agencies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-15.md - 52-7-16, Towing persons on water skis, aquaplanes, surfboards or similar device, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-16.md - 52-7-17, Speed and load restrictions; riding of bow or gunwale of vessel, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-17.md - 52-7-18, Rules of the road for boat traffic, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-18.md - 52-7-19, Regattas, boat races, marine parades, tournaments, and exhibitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-19.md - 52-7-20, Operation of vessels in vicinity of regulatory markers and aids to navigation; tampering with regulatory markers and aids to navigation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-20.md - 52-7-21, Local regulations concerning operation, equipment, numbering, and other matters relating to vessels, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-21.md - 52-7-22, Comprehensive boating educational programs; required completion; exception, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-22.md - 52-7-23, Power of Board of Natural Resources to adopt rules and regulations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-23.md - 52-7-24, Filing and publication of rules and regulations and amendments thereto, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-24.md - 52-7-25, Enforcement of article, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-25.md - 52-7-26, Penalty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-26.md - 52-7-30, Compact enacted and entered into; provisions of compact, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-30.md - 52-7-31, Administration of compact; reciprocal suspension when operating privileges suspended in party state; Board of Natural Resources to publish rules and regulations; creation of compact manual, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-31.md - 52-7-40, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-40.md - 52-7-41, Requirement as to attachment of capacity plates to vessels generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-41.md - 52-7-42, Information to be marked on capacity plate, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-42.md - 52-7-43, Determination of maximum capacity, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-43.md - 52-7-44, Affixing of capacity plate by person other than vessel manufacturer; effect of such action on liability of manufacturer, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-44.md - 52-7-45, Information on capacity plate as constituting a warranty; nature of warranty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-45.md - 52-7-46, Alternative compliance with article if affixing of capacity plate deemed impracticable or undesirable, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-46.md - 52-7-47, Exemption of watercraft by rules and regulations of Board of Natural Resources, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-47.md - 52-7-48, Promulgation of rules and regulations by Board of Natural Resources generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-48.md - 52-7-49, Exemption of watercraft manufactured for personal use, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-49.md - 52-7-50, Applicability of article, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-50.md - 52-7-51, Penalty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-51.md - 52-7-70, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-70.md - 52-7-71, Removal and storage of vessels; procedure, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-71.md - 52-7-72, Authority of peace officer to cause removal of unattended vessels; notifications; duties, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-72.md - 52-7-72.1, Penalty for failing to remove unattended vessel, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-72.1.md - 52-7-73, Lien on vessel; foreclosure in courts competent to hear civil cases, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-73.md - 52-7-74, Procedure for foreclosure, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-74.md - 52-7-75, Public sale of vessel; disposition of excess proceeds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-75.md - 52-7-76, Issuance of certificate of title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-76.md - 52-7-77, Payment of balance remaining after satisfaction of liens, security interests, and debts, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-77.md