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It shall be the duty of persons renting motorboats to equip them as required by this chapter.B\n\nIt shall be unlawful for any person to regularly offer a boat or boats, other than a motorboat, for rent for use on the public waters of the Commonwealth unless such person provides, for the use of each passenger in the boat, a life preserver of the sort prescribed by the regulations of the Board.C\n\nIt shall be unlawful for any person, without first successfully completing a basic boating safety education course approved by the Director, to rent a personal watercraft to another person.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":284778,"text":"It shall be unlawful to rent a motorboat to any person unless the provisions of this chapter have been complied with. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 500 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1960 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 4 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1962, chapter 626; in 1968, chapter 659; in 1987, chapter 488; in 1998, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?981+ful+CHAP0515\">515<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":193667,"object_type":"law","relational_id":79496,"identifier":"29.1-736","token":"29.1\/7\/3\/29.1-736","url":"\/29.1-736\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/29.1-736\/","token":"29.1\/7\/3\/29.1-736","dublin_core":{"Title":"Boat rentals; equipment; safety course","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 29.1-736","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">A.<\/span> It shall be unlawful to rent a <span class=\"dictionary\">motorboat<\/span> to any person unless the provisions of this chapter have been complied with. It shall be the duty of persons renting <span class=\"dictionary\">motorboats<\/span> to equip them as required by this chapter. <a id=\"paragraph-284778\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/29.1-736\/#A\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"B\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">B.<\/span> It shall be unlawful for any person to regularly offer a boat or boats, other than a <span class=\"dictionary\">motorboat<\/span>, for rent for use on the public <span class=\"dictionary\">waters of the Commonwealth<\/span> unless such person provides, for the use of each passenger in the boat, a life preserver of the sort prescribed by the <span class=\"dictionary\">regulations<\/span> of the <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span>. <a id=\"paragraph-284779\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/29.1-736\/#B\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"C\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">C.<\/span> It shall be unlawful for any person, without first successfully completing a basic boating safety education course approved by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Director<\/span>, to rent a <span class=\"dictionary\">personal watercraft<\/span> to another person. <a id=\"paragraph-284780\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/29.1-736\/#C\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nBOAT RENTALS; EQUIPMENT; SAFETY COURSE (\u00a7 29.1-736)\n\nA. It shall be unlawful to rent a motorboat to any person unless the provisions\nof this chapter have been complied with. It shall be the duty of persons renting\nmotorboats to equip them as required by this chapter.\n\nB. It shall be unlawful for any person to regularly offer a boat or boats, other\nthan a motorboat, for rent for use on the public waters of the Commonwealth\nunless such person provides, for the use of each passenger in the boat, a life\npreserver of the sort prescribed by the regulations of the Board.\n\nC. It shall be unlawful for any person, without first successfully completing a\nbasic boating safety education course approved by the Director, to rent a\npersonal watercraft to another person.\n\nHISTORY: 1960, c. 500, \u00a7 62-174.8; 1962, c. 626; 1968, c. 659, \u00a7 62.1-174;\n1987, c. 488; 1998, c. 515.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}