12:7A-8. Manufacturer's number
a. Subsequent to the effective date of this act, each piece of marine equipment for sale and purchase in this State shall contain a manufacturer's number.
b. After six months from the effective date of this act, no person shall possess, operate, use, transport, or sell any marine equipment requiring a certificate of ownership, without the manufacturer's number.
c. The director shall adopt regulations to implement the purpose of this section, and the director shall provide for the assignment of manufacturers' numbers to that marine equipment, including home-made marine equipment, which is without a manufacturer's number.
d. Beginning six months from the effective date of this act, the director, the State Marine Police Force or any law enforcement officer may immediately seize and take possession anywhere in this State of any marine equipment on which the manufacturer's number or numbers have been obliterated, erased, mutilated, removed or missing.
L. 1984, c. 152, s. 8, eff. June 15, 1987.