Chapter 2.— REGULATIOiN OF MOTORBOATS AND 

 CERTAIN OTHER VESSELS 



SUBCHAPTER 2A.— MOTORBOAT ACT OF 1940 



"Motorboat" defined; inspection 



46 U.S.C. 526 



The word "motorboat" where used in this Act shall include every 

 vessel propelled b}' machinery and not more than sixty-five feet in 

 length except tugboats and towboats propelled by steam. The length 

 shall be measured from end to end over the deck excluding 

 sheer: Provided^ That the engine, boiler, or other operating ma- 

 chinery shall be subject to inspection by the Coast Guard, and to 

 its approval of the design thereof, on all said motorboats, whifch 

 are more than forty feet in length, and which are propelled by 

 machinery driven by steam. 



Classification of motorboats 



46 U.S.C. 526a 



Motorboats subject to the provisions of this Act shall be divided 

 into four classes as follows : 



Class A. Less than sixteen feet in length. 



Class 1. Sixteen feet or over and less than twenty-six feet in length. 

 Class 2. Twenty-six feet or over and less than forty feet in length. 

 Class 3. Forty feet or over and not more than sixty-five feet in length. 



Lights 



46 U.S.C. 526b 



Every motorboat in all weathers from sunset to sunrise shall carry 

 and exhibit the following lights when under way, and during such 

 time no other lights which may be mistaken for those prescribed 

 shall be exhibited : 



(a) Every motorboat of classes A and 1 shall carry the following 

 lights : 



First. A bright white light aft to show all around the horizon. 



Second. A combined lantern in the fore part of the vessel and lower 

 than the white light aft, showing green to starboard and red to port, 

 so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft 

 the beam on their respective sides. 



(b) Every motorboat of classes 2 and 3 shall carry the following 

 lights : 



First. A bright white light in the fore part of the vessel as near the 

 stem as practicable, so constructed as to show an unbroken light over 

 an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass, so fixed as to 

 throw the light ten points on each side of the vessel; namely, from 

 right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side. 



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