Sec. 2. (a) A motorboat does not have to be registered and numbered under this chapter if any of the following conditions are met:

(1) The motorboat is legally registered in another state and:

(A) the motorboat has not been within Indiana for more than sixty (60) consecutive days;

(B) the owner of the motorboat has paid:

(i) the excise tax required under IC 6-6-11;

(ii) the fees required under IC 6-6-11-13; and

(iii) a two dollar ($2) fee to the bureau; or

(C) the motorboat is moored on the Indiana part of Lake Michigan for not more than one hundred eighty (180) consecutive days.

(2) The motorboat is from a country other than the United States temporarily using the waters of Indiana.

(3) The motorboat is a ship's lifeboat.

(4) The motorboat belongs to a class of boats that has been exempted from registration and numbering by the bureau after the bureau has found the following:

(A) That the registration and numbering of motorboats of that class will not materially aid in their identification.

(B) That an agency of the federal government has a numbering system applicable to the class of motorboats to which the motorboat in question belongs.

(C) That the motorboat would also be exempt from numbering if the motorboat were subject to the federal law.

(b) The following are prima facie evidence that a motorboat will be operated on the waters of Indiana for more than sixty (60) consecutive days and is not exempt from registration under subsection (a)(1)(A):

(1) The rental or lease for more than sixty (60) consecutive days of a mooring facility that is located on the waters of Indiana for the motorboat.

(2) The purchase of a mooring facility that is located on the waters of Indiana for the motorboat.

(3) Any other contractual agreement that allows the use of a mooring facility that is located on the waters of Indiana for:

(A) the motorboat; and

(B) more than sixty (60) consecutive days.

(c) A fee imposed under subsection (a)(1)(B)(iii) shall be distributed as follows:

(1) Twenty-five cents ($0.25) to the state construction fund.

(2) One dollar and seventy-five cents ($1.75) to the commission fund.

[Pre-2016 Revision Citation: subsection (c) formerly 9-29-15-9(b).]

As added by P.L.71-1991, SEC.11. Amended by P.L.81-1993, SEC.4; P.L.64-1996, SEC.2; P.L.46-2006, SEC.3; P.L.171-2013, SEC.1; P.L.198-2016, SEC.618; P.L.257-2017, SEC.40; P.L.108-2019, SEC.188.