Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 13 - DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Subtitle 11 - OCEAN RECREATION AND COASTAL AREAS
Part 2 - BOATING
Chapter 241 - NUMBERING AND TITLING OF VESSELS
- Section 13-241-1 - Definitions
- Section 13-241-2 - Vessel numbering and titling requirements; operation of certain vessels prohibited
- Section 13-241-3 - Numbering system
- Section 13-241-4 - Number display
- Section 13-241-5 - Application for number or title; contents; requirements
- Section 13-241-6 - Authority to grant or refuse applications
- Section 13-241-7 - Certificate of number and certificate of title; contents
- Section 13-241-8 - Certificate of number and certificate of title; description
- Section 13-241-9 - Cancellation of certificate of number; withdrawal of number
- Section 13-241-10 - Period of validity and renewal of certificate of number; dormant certificate of number; stored vessels
- Section 13-241-11 - Owner required to report change of address, ownership, loss, destruction or abandonment of vessel
- Section 13-241-12 - New owner must secure new certificate of number and certificate of title
- Section 13-241-13 - Registration decals
- Section 13-241-14 - Stolen or mutilated certificates or registration decals
- Section 13-241-15 - Falsified, unauthorized, or removed identification number, registration decal, or title
- Section 13-241-16 - Improper use of certificate of number or certificate of title
- Section 13-241-17 - Seizure of documents and decals
- Section 13-241-18 - Numbering of manufacturer's and dealer's vessels
- Section 13-241-19 - Livery boat number
- Section 13-241-20
- Section 13-241-21 - Issuance of certificate of number; certificate of title to only be issued by the department
- Section 13-241-22 - Third-party vessel registration agents
- Section 13-241-23 - Public records
- Section 13-241-24 - Transmittal of statistical information
- Section 13-241-25 - Fees and charges
- Section 13-241-26 - Negotiable instruments; service charge
Current through February, 2024
The administrative jurisdiction for recreational boating and related vessel activity was transferred from the Department of Transportation, Harbors Division, to the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation, effective July 1, 1992, in accordance with Act 272, SLH 1991. Hawaii became a vessel title state effective July 1, 2018, with the enactment of Act 46, SLH 2018, relating to the Uniform Certificate of Title for Vessels Act.
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