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New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 270:44: Size of Rafts; Separation of Rafts and Single Boats.

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  1. Title XXII: NAVIGATION; HARBORS; COAST SURVEY
  2. Chapter 270: SUPERVISION OF NAVIGATION; REGISTRATION OF BOATS AND MOTORS; COMMON CARRIERS BY WATER
  3. Rafting of Boats

Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, no person shall, in a prohibited location or at a prohibited time:

I. Form or allow the boat which he is operating or in charge of to be a member of a raft consisting of 3 or more boats;

II. Form or allow the boat which he is operating or in charge of to be a member of a raft if any part of such raft is:

(a) Less than 50 feet from any other raft; or

(b) Less than 50 feet from any occupied single boat which is stationary upon the waters of the same lake or pond.

III. Anchor a single boat and cause it to remain stationary upon the waters of a lake or pond other than momentarily if any part of such boat is:

(a) Less than 50 feet away from any raft; or

(b) Less than 25 feet away from any other single boat which is stationary upon the waters of such lake or pond.

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