Here are some definitions that will help in understanding and learning the material in the following sections:
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"Certificate of Number" means the registration certificate required to operate a motorboat on the waters of New Mexico.
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"Combination Lights" means lights required on all vessels operating on the waters of New Mexico in the hours of darkness, green on the starboard (right) side and red on the port (left) and shall throw the lights from dead ahead to two points abaft of the beam on their respective sides.
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"Department" means the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department.
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"Director" means the Director of the State Parks Division of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department.
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"Division" means the State Parks Division of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department.
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"Flotation Assist Device" means a wet suit or wearable flotation device in good condition capable of providing flotation to the wearer on the surface of the water.
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"Person" means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, joint venture or other entity.
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"Personal Flotation Device" means a Coast Guard Approved life preserver, buoyant vest, hybrid device, ring buoy or buoyant cushion.
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"Personal Watercraft (PWC)" means a Class A motorboat less than 16 feet, designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing or kneeling on the vessel rather than the operator sitting or standing inside the vessel. Examples include jet skis, sea doos, wave runners and similar devices.
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"Registration" means the process by which motorboats owned by persons domiciled in New Mexico and motorboats not registered in any other state nor by the United States which are operated on the waters of this state are numbered as evidenced by a certificate of number issued by the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department under a Joint Powers Agreement with the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department.
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"Right of Way" means the right of a vessel which is proceeding on an established forward course at a relatively constant speed to continue such course unchanged without reducing speed, turning, veering or reversing.
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"Secretary" means the Secretary of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department.
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"Superintendent" means an employee of the State Parks Division who is in charge of a specific park(s).
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"Vessel" means every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water.
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"Wake" means white water created from wave action breaking off the bow or sides of the vessel.
