Marine Patrol

[NightWing]

Originally Posted by Acres per Second

The stop was in 1992.

So, all during the 1991 season and part way into the 1992 season, you never noticed a small sailboat, even a Sunfish, that was displaying a validation decal? OK, maybe you don't look at other boats.

Originally Posted by Acres per Second

Unpowered boats that were legally-unregistered in 1991 and legally without registration numbers, were among the least likely to ever receive the boating guide.

Boating guides aren't mailed out or automatically given with registrations, but are usually readily available in most marinas and boating supply stores in addition to registration desks. Certainly MP headquarters would have them available. Boating guides are a good thing to review every year, just to see if there have been any changes, plus they are tools to review your present knowledge. Just be aware that they are printed for informative purposes, but are not law books. Sometimes mistakes are made in printing and not discovered until later. Serious errors are usually covered by a loose page provided with the guides. Any questions about any boating law should be directed to an officer or headquarters. If you wanted a boating guide, there were plenty around.

Originally Posted by Acres per Second

Wel-l-l-l-l-l...there were two MP questions infringing on 5th Amendment rights on that 1992 stop. Those were understandable errors that were easily made with the requirements of that "new" (new in 1991) RSA 270 E:4 law. (And I couldn't/didn't comply anyway).

What might those two questions have been? As far as compliance, I would imagine that you have complied by now.

If I may paraphrase a note at the bottom of Skip's posts:

"Ignorance of the law is no excuse."