KRS 235.200: Required equipment -- Prohibition against operation without required

equipment.

(1) Every vessel shall have aboard:

(a) Personal floatation devices of the type and quantity as prescribed by the

United States Coast Guard;

(b) When in operation during hours of darkness, or during times of poor visibility,

such lights as prescribed by administrative regulations of the department;

(c) If carrying or using any inflammable or toxic fluid in any inclosure for any

purpose, and if not an entirely open motorboat , an efficient natural or

mechanical ventilation system which shall be capable of removing resulting

gases prior to and during the time such motorboat is occupied by any person;

(d) Such additional equipment designed to promote the safety of navigation and

of persons as the department may find to be appropriate and for which it has

provided in its administrative regulations;

(e) If such motorboat is equipped with toilet facilities, a storage container or a

treatment or disposal system of size and constructi on sufficient to protect and

preserve the waters of this state from pollution. The storage container or

treatment or disposal system shall conform to the construction, performance,

and utilization criteria as may be established by regulations promulgated

pursuant to this chapter;

(f) The certificate number.

(2) Except during an authorized race or regatta, which shall include trial runs in

preparation for such race or regatta to be conducted at a time and place designated

by the department, it shall be illeg al to operate any motorboat without an effective

exhaust muffling system, or in any manner which renders the exhaust muffling

system ineffective in muffling the sound of engine exhaust.

(3) No person shall operate or give permission for the operation of a motorboat which

is not equipped as required by this section or modification thereof or which is not

safe for operation as a motorboat.