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Marine Police
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License Info
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8/19/2004 7:25:23 PM
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4thelake....jlazc answered your question as far as the regulation concerning license requirements. Non-residents aren't required to have a license unless they operate a boat in AL more than 45 days in a year. However, a non-resident CAN obtain a boat license if they want. They have to pass the test and go to a driver's license office.
I don't know how they arrived at 45 days as the cutoff. I've heard rumors about how they originally arrived at the 12 yr. old operator age (which has since been changed to 14). I tend to believe it given what I know about state politics. The strangest "loophole" of the law to me is the one that exempts people that rent boats from having a license. That makes no sense at all. The only way to change any of that is to contact your state legislator.
BTW, it is illegal to ride outside the rails on a pontoon boat. Anytime a boat is above idle speed all passengers have to be seated inside the boat....below the gunwale (i.e. lower than the sides of the boat). That also includes sitting on the sundeck of runabouts.
You can check the link for rules and regulations regarding boating. Also you can pick up a boating reg. pamphlet at most marinas around the lake.
URL: outdooralabama.com
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lamont
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8/20/2004 7:34:18 AM
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Thanks MP. My question is, how does an out-of-stater prove he operates his boat less than 45 days.?As someone else mentioned, that breaks down to about 22 weekends and with the water down practically half the year, the out-of-stater would have to operate his boat almost every weekend, while the water is up, to get in 45 days.
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Lakeman
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8/20/2004 8:43:45 AM
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Is that 45 days consecutive or any 45 days of the year? With the speeds some of these watercycles obtain the age limit should be 16yrs. just like for driving on the highway.
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roswellric
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Good Point
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8/20/2004 8:56:43 AM
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Well, you can't. Wonder why they inserted that in the law?
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Marine Police
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8/20/2004 10:18:12 AM
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It's any 45 days out of the year. There is no burden on a non-resident to prove they have operated less than 45 days. IF we wrote a ticket it would be up to us to prove they had operated more than 45 days. I never said it made sense LOL.
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greycove
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Not boat license related but..
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8/20/2004 2:21:40 PM
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pulled my Alabama boat to Florida last year. Florida highway patrol pulled me over south of Tallahassee. Sorry Marine Police, but I could almost see him rubbing his hands in glee as he approached my truck. His smile drooped a little when he passed behind my truck and saw the Alabama tag. He pointed out my lack of a tag on the trailer. I told him we did not have to have same in Alabama. Said he did not know that. I told him he could call our state police to verify. After a few more words, he let me go, without even a warning. He started the exchange with a smile, I ended the exchange with a smile.
So we in Alabama have some stricter rules on boating and some not so strict.
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Rickiray
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Not boat license related but..
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8/20/2004 2:49:37 PM
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are you saying trailers don't need tag and registration in alabama? I didn't know that.
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Ulysses E. McGill
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Not boat license related but..
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8/20/2004 3:43:12 PM
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Only if the trailer remains in-state. You are supposed to get a tag to pull the boat out of state.
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4Golf
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8/20/2004 4:01:46 PM
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It seems to me that the State of Alabama should have an interest in making sure that everyone who is within the boundries of the state has sufficient knowledge of the rules of the water to regulate this a little closer. Given, you don't have to have a Ga. license to drive on Ga. roads, but you do have to have a valid license in some state. What happens when Ga. doesn't regulate vessels like AL? Licenses are a privedge, not a right, and this should be so for boating as well. It still doesn't make sense to me that the state doesn't make everyone hold a valid boat license in some state, whether it be your home state or Al. Interstate commerce clause be ^*%*ed. Somehow , I just don't see this as a violation of constitutional rights or a restraint of trade issue.
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greycove
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Not boat license related but..
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8/20/2004 4:34:00 PM
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That is my understanding. You do not have to tag certain small utility trailers as well.
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greycove
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Do you have a...
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8/20/2004 4:36:27 PM
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source for tags on Alabama boat trailers taken out of state?
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Blue Creeker
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You soon will...
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8/20/2004 11:30:20 PM
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...for the State of Alabama just figured out that there is a ton of money to be made by requiring ALL trailers to have plates.
It's in the works.
Probably will be $15 a trailer.
And think of all the small lawn businesses and regular weekend warriors who have trailers....wooweee that's a nice piece of change our leaders will just %^&* up!
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Blue Creeker
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I was kinda wrong...
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8/21/2004 5:04:20 PM
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...it is an old law to have trailers registered.
Just now, money is at a premium more than ever, counties are beginning to enforce said laws.
My dad just bought an eight foot trailer, nothing fancy, single axle....30 bucks for the tag.
Tallpoosa County, too.
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Elmore Co Tag office.....nice lady behind the desk that wanted my money.
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Alabama considers the boat and trailer as a package if the boat is registered. If you drive the package out of state, you need a license plate.
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4thelake
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8/23/2004 11:08:02 AM
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Thanks Marine Police for all the good info. This is a great place for Q and A.
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