California · Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC

HNC §308: A person who moors a vessel of any kind, to a buoy or beacon, except a designated mooring buoy, placed in the waters of the state by authority of the United States Coast Guard, or who in any manner ha

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

A person who moors a vessel to an unauthorized buoy, hangs onto one with a vessel, or willfully removes, damages, or destroys a buoy, beacon, or land-based beacon placed by the U.S. Coast Guard commits a misdemeanor.

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A person who moors a vessel of any kind, to a buoy or beacon, except a designated mooring buoy, placed in the waters of the state by authority of the United States Coast Guard, or who in any manner hangs on to the same, with a vessel, or who willfully removes, damages, or destroys any such buoy or beacon, or any part of the buoy or beacon, or who cuts down, removes, damages, or destroys a beacon erected on land in this state by that authority, is, for every offense, guilty of a misdemeanor.

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