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Original post by upthesaukee
Keep the registration money, earmark a portion of it, raise it $2 per boat, whatever....but to suggest eliminating the refund for boats will end up being a logistical nightmare for the state, trying to figure out who is circumventing the law and saying their lawn tractor used 430 gallons during June, July, & August.
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Actually what I was suggesting and I didn't articulate it clearly, is that the state gasoline tax refund be eliminated for boats, nothing else, and that money be earmarked for the Marine Patrol.
The way I would approach it is to eliminate the gas tax refund from gasoline sold only at marinas. I don't know too many people who haul their lawn tractor down to the gas dock to refuel it do you?
Yep, it would require new legislation.
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Original post by Acres per Second
The 150' rule isn't enforced because nobody wants to enforce a rule that is violated so often by so many boaters.
It's also VAGUE.
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I disagree, while it may be routinely violated it is not vague.
If there is an issue with what happens when a boat is being overtaken then add language that addresses that issue.
I don't have the Colregs in front of me but I believe the stand on vessel is supposed to maintain course and SPEED and the overtaking vessel is to signal its intent using its horn and can not proceed until the vessel being overtaken agrees.
I'm not an attorney but I always thought that when there are conflicting statutes between state and federal law, federal law trumps so it really isn't necessary to re-write everything.