Or. Admin. Code § 250-010-0010 - Definitions
As used in OAR Chapter 250, unless otherwise required by context:
(1) "Aquatic Invasive Species
Prevention Permit" is an authorization issued by the Oregon State Marine Board
or through designated agents that certifies payment to the Aquatic Invasive
Species Prevention Fund.
(2) "Black
Waste" means human body wastes including feces, urine, other substances of
bodily origin, and toilet paper.
(3) "Board" means the Oregon State Marine
Board.
(4) "Boat Livery" means a
person, persons, or a business establishment engaged in renting or hiring out
boats for profit.
(5)
"Eleemosynary" means an organization supported by gifts or charity which is
operated primarily as a part of organized activities for the purpose of
teaching youth's scout craft, camping, seamanship, self-reliance, patriotism,
courage and kindred virtues.
(6)
"Float Tube" means a manufactured floating device constructed of canvas, nylon
or other similar material encasing an inner tube capable of supporting one
person sitting inside with their legs dangling below the vessel, used as a
means of transportation on the water. Single float tubes are boats as defined
in ORS 830.005(2) and if powered by machinery, single float tubes are
motorboats as defined in ORS 830.005(5) and subject to numbering according to
OAR 250-010-0040.
(7) "Kiteboard"
means a vessel with no freeboard that is propelled by a sail or sail-like
device that is not attached to the vessel but held and manipulated by the
operator. These vessels include those common for kiteboarding, wingfoiling, and
kitefoiling.
(8) "Nonmotorized
boat" means any watercraft as defined in ORS 830.005(2), but not a motorboat as
defined in 830.005(6).
(9)
"Operator" means the person who operates or who has charge of the navigation or
use of a boat.
(10) "Person" means
an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, or other
entity.
(11) "Person on Board"
means every person being carried on board or being towed by a vessel.
(12) "Portable Toilet" means all types of
portable containers, hand carried potties, buckets or similar devices used to
collect black waste into a small receptacle.
(13) "Propel" means but is not limited to
floating, rowing, paddling, sailing or otherwise operating a boat (as defined
in ORS 830.005), a vessel or ship.
(14) "Sailboard" means a sail propelled
vessel with no freeboard and equipped with a swivel mounted mast not secured to
a hull by guys or stays.
(15)
"Sewage" means water-carried human and animal wastes and may include but is not
solely kitchen, bath, and laundry wastes from residences, buildings, boats or
other places.
(16) "Ship's
Lifeboats" means lifeboats used solely for lifesaving purposes and does not
include dinghies, tenders, speedboats, or other types of craft carried aboard a
vessel and used for other than lifesaving purposes.
(17) "Slow-No Wake" means operating a boat at
the slowest speed necessary to maintain steerage and that reduces or eliminates
waves that appear as white water behind the boat.
(18) "Throwable Personal Flotation Device
(PFD)" means a PFD that is intended to be thrown to a person in the water. A
PFD marked as Type IV or Type V with Type IV performance is considered a
throwable PFD; unless specifically marked, a wearable PFD is not a throwable
PFD.
(19) "Type I Marine Sanitation
Device" means a device installed on board a boat that is designed to receive,
retain, treat, or discharge sewage or black waste, which produces an effluent
having a fecal coliform bacteria count not greater than 1,000 per 100 ml and no
visible floating solids.
(20) "Type
II Marine Sanitation Device" means a device installed on board a boat that is
designed to receive, retain, treat, or discharge sewage or black waste, which
produces an effluent having a fecal coliform bacteria count not greater than
200 per 100 ml and suspended solids not greater than 150 mg/L.
(21) "Type III Marine Sanitation Device"
means a device installed on board a boat that is designed to receive, retain,
treat, or discharge sewage or black waste, which is designed to prevent the
overboard discharge of treated or untreated sewage or any waste derived from
sewage. These include but are not limited to a holding tank with a means of
pumping the sewage into a land-based Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
approved wastewater treatment system.
(22) "Undocumented Vessel" means any vessel
which is not required to have, or does not have, a valid marine document issued
by the U.S. Coast Guard.
(23)
"Underway" means when a boat is not at anchor, or moored, or made fast to the
shore, or aground.
(24)
"Wakeboarding" means the activity of towing a person who is attached with two
foot bindings on equipment similar to a short surfboard or snowboard. Equipment
used in this activity may include but is not limited to wake boards.
(25) "Wake surfing" means the activity of
propelling a person, on equipment similar to a surfboard, forward with a boat's
wake. The person may be holding a rope or free riding. Equipment used in this
activity may include but is not limited to wake surf boards, wake boards, stand
up paddleboards, and hydrofoils.
(26) "Waterway Access Permit" is an
authorization issued by the Oregon State Marine Board or through designated
agents that certifies payment to the Waterway Access Fund.
(27) "Wearable Personal Flotation Device
(PFD)" means a PFD that is intended to be worn or otherwise attached to the
body. A PFD marked as Type I, Type II, Type III, or Type V with Type (I, II, or
III) performance is considered a wearable PFD.
Notes
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 830.110
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 830.110
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