Section 130 Of Chapter 1. Construction From California Revenue And Taxation Code >> Division 1. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 1.
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. (a) "Vessel" includes every description of watercraft used or
capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, but does
not include aircraft.
(b) "Documented vessel" means any vessel which is required to have
and does have a valid marine document issued by the Bureau of
Customs of the United States or any federal agency successor thereto,
except documented yachts of the United States, or is registered
with, or licensed by, the Department of Motor Vehicles. "Documented
vessel" does not include any vessel exempt from taxation under
subdivision (l) of Section 3 of Article XIII of the Constitution of
the State of California.
(c) "Vessel of the United States" means a documented vessel, that
is, a vessel registered, enrolled and licensed, or licensed under the
laws of the United States, except documented yachts of the United
States.
(d) "Port of documentation" means the home port of a vessel as
shown in the marine document in force and issued to the owner of such
vessel by the Bureau of Customs of the United States or any federal
agency successor thereto.
(e) "Marine document" includes registry, enrollment and license,
and license.
(f) "In this state" means within the exterior limits of the State
of California, and includes all territory within these limits owned
by, or ceded to, the United States of America.
(g) "Natural resources" consist of both the living resources of
the sea and the mineral and other nonliving resources of the seabed
and subsoil together with living organisms belonging to sedentary
species, which are organisms which, at the harvestable stage, either
are immobile on or under the seabed or are unable to move except in
constant physical contact with the seabed or the subsoil.
(h) "Oceanographic research vessel" means a vessel which the
secretary of the department in which the United States Coast Guard is
operating, or his successor, finds is an oceanographic research
vessel under the laws of the United States.