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Winnisquamguy · 12-29-2012, 09:16 AM

LACONIA — The City Clerk will begin registering boats for 2013 when her office opens on Wednesday, January 2. City Clerk Mary Reynolds said that boat owners need only show photographic identification and their prior year's registration, if they have it, to register in person.
"You will be ready to put your boat in the water before ice-out," she said.
After previously refusing to consider Reynold's application to serve as a boat agent, the Department of Safety (DOS) approved it midway through the boating season last year. The five marinas in the city — Channel Marine, Irwin Marine, Lakeport Landing, Paugus Bay Marina and Thurston's Marine — are also agents authorized to process registrations and collect fees.
For the past six years the state and its municipalities have wrestled over the proceeds from boat registrations, which may be collected by either. Two fees are collected. The registration fee ranges from $24 to $92 according to the length of the vessel, and the boat fee varies from $10 to $1,761 with the type, length, engine and age of the vessel. Both fees may be collected either by the state or its agents, both municipalities or marinas.
All proceeds from the registration fee, apart from a processing charge, are deposited with the state. But, boat fees collected by agents, either municipalities or marinas, are kept by the municipalities, where they offset property taxes, while those collected by the state remain with state.
In 2006, the DOS began aggressively pursuing registrations by mailing renewal notices to some 102,000 boat owners, along with a self-addressed, postage paid envelope, as well as processing boat registrations at the satellite office of the Department of Motor Vehicles at the Belknap Mall. Since 2004, when the city collected approximately $140,000 in boat fees, receipts have plummeted to less than $65,000.
In supporting Reynold's efforts to become a boat agent, the City Council expected that with the clerk's office, together with the five marinas registering vessels, the decline in proceeds from boat registrations could be halted or reversed, especially since the DMV closed its office at the Belknap Mall in Belmont.

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12-29-2012, 09:16 AM	#6
Winnisquamguy Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Winnisquam, NH Posts: 613 Thanks: 419 Thanked 163 Times in 115 Posts	Article from LDS LACONIA — The City Clerk will begin registering boats for 2013 when her office opens on Wednesday, January 2. City Clerk Mary Reynolds said that boat owners need only show photographic identification and their prior year's registration, if they have it, to register in person. "You will be ready to put your boat in the water before ice-out," she said. After previously refusing to consider Reynold's application to serve as a boat agent, the Department of Safety (DOS) approved it midway through the boating season last year. The five marinas in the city — Channel Marine, Irwin Marine, Lakeport Landing, Paugus Bay Marina and Thurston's Marine — are also agents authorized to process registrations and collect fees. For the past six years the state and its municipalities have wrestled over the proceeds from boat registrations, which may be collected by either. Two fees are collected. The registration fee ranges from $24 to $92 according to the length of the vessel, and the boat fee varies from $10 to $1,761 with the type, length, engine and age of the vessel. Both fees may be collected either by the state or its agents, both municipalities or marinas. All proceeds from the registration fee, apart from a processing charge, are deposited with the state. But, boat fees collected by agents, either municipalities or marinas, are kept by the municipalities, where they offset property taxes, while those collected by the state remain with state. In 2006, the DOS began aggressively pursuing registrations by mailing renewal notices to some 102,000 boat owners, along with a self-addressed, postage paid envelope, as well as processing boat registrations at the satellite office of the Department of Motor Vehicles at the Belknap Mall. Since 2004, when the city collected approximately $140,000 in boat fees, receipts have plummeted to less than $65,000. In supporting Reynold's efforts to become a boat agent, the City Council expected that with the clerk's office, together with the five marinas registering vessels, the decline in proceeds from boat registrations could be halted or reversed, especially since the DMV closed its office at the Belknap Mall in Belmont. http://www.laconiadailysun.com/index...t-registration __________________ "I'd rather be ridin than rolling"