Missouri HB 2505: Establishes a three-year registration option for boats and a permanent registration option for boats and outboard motors.

Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 2505
100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BROMLEY.
5237H.03I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 306.030, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to
registration fees for watercraft.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 306.030, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu
2 thereof, to be known as section 306.030, to read as follows:
306.030. 1. The owner of each vessel requiring numbering by this state shall file an
2 application for number with the department of revenue on forms provided by it. The application
3 shall contain a full description of the vessel, factory number or serial number, together with a
4 statement of the applicant's source of title and of any liens or encumbrances on the vessel. For
5 good cause shown the director of revenue may extend the period of time for making such
6 application. The director of revenue shall use reasonable diligence in ascertaining whether the
7 facts stated in such application are true, and, if satisfied that the applicant is the lawful owner of
8 such vessel, or otherwise entitled to have the same registered in his or her name, shall thereupon
9 issue an appropriate certificate of title over the director's signature and sealed with the seal of the
10 director's office, procured and used for such purpose, and a certificate of number stating the
11 number awarded to the vessel. The application shall include a provision stating that the applicant
12 will consent to any inspection necessary to determine compliance with the provisions of this
13 chapter and shall be signed by the owner of the vessel and shall be accompanied by the fee
14 specified in subsection 10 of this section. The owner shall paint on or attach to each side of the
15 bow of the vessel the identification number in a manner as may be prescribed by rules and
16 regulations of the division of water safety in order that it may be clearly visible. The number
17 shall be maintained in legible condition. The certificate of number shall be pocket size and shall
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended
to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

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18 be available at all times for inspection on the vessel for which issued, whenever the vessel is in
19 operation. The operator of a vessel in which such certificate of number is not available for
20 inspection by the water patrol division or, if the operator cannot be determined, the person who
21 is the registered owner of the vessel shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 306.210.
22 Vessels owned by the state or a political subdivision shall be registered but no fee shall be
23 assessed for such registration.
24 2. Each new vessel sold in this state after January 1, 1970, shall have die stamped on or
25 within three feet of the transom or stern a factory number or serial number.
26 3. The owner of any vessel already covered by a number in full force and effect which
27 has been awarded to it pursuant to then operative federal law or a federally approved numbering
28 system of another state shall record the number prior to operating the vessel on the waters of this
29 state in excess of the sixty-day reciprocity period provided for in section 306.080. The
30 recordation and payment of registration fee shall be in the manner and pursuant to the procedure
31 required for the award of a number under subsection 1 of this section. No additional or substitute
32 number shall be issued unless the number is a duplicate of an existing Missouri number.
33 4. In the event that an agency of the United States government shall have in force an
34 overall system of identification numbering for vessels within the United States, the numbering
35 system employed pursuant to this chapter by the department of revenue shall be in conformity
36 therewith.
37 5. All records of the department of revenue made and kept pursuant to this section shall
38 be public records.
39 6. Every certificate of number awarded pursuant to this chapter shall continue in force
40 and effect for [a period of three years] the period of registration unless sooner terminated or
41 discontinued in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Certificates of number may be
42 renewed by the owner in the same manner provided for in the initial securing of the same or in
43 accordance with the provisions of sections 306.010 to 306.030.
44 7. The department of revenue shall fix the days and months of the year on which
45 certificates of number due to expire during the calendar year shall lapse and no longer be of any
46 force and effect unless renewed pursuant to this chapter and may stagger such dates in order to
47 distribute the workload. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to permanent
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