Section 33-5-21

Safety provisions relative to boat liveries.

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources through its agents and employees shall have the right to inspect at any reasonable time all boats owned or controlled by a livery operator for the purpose of ascertaining their seaworthiness and safety. In the event any boat owned or used by the livery operator for rental purposes is determined to be in an unsafe or unseaworthy condition, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall immediately notify the livery operator in writing as to the unsafe or unseaworthy condition of such boat or boats and, after such notification, it shall be unlawful for the boat liveryman to rent or offer to rent any boat found to be in such condition; provided, however, that if such cited boat can be placed in a seaworthy or safe condition by repairs or alterations as so directed by the department, the same may then again be used for rental purposes but only after another inspection of the vessel to ascertain whether or not such repairs or alterations have been duly made.

(Acts 1959, No. 576, p. 1442, §19; Acts 1961, No. 878, p. 1377, §5.)