California Code
Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC
DIVISION 2 - NAVIGATION

CHAPTER 1 - Scope of Division

Section 240. - 240. The provisions of this Division, in so far as...

CHAPTER 2 - Penalties

Section 250. - 250. When steam vessels meet each shall turn to the...

Section 251. - 251. When a passenger is to be landed from a...

Section 252. - 252. No line used for the purpose of landing or...

Section 253. - 253. During the landing and receiving of a passenger, and...

Section 254. - 254. There shall be kept in every small boat a...

Section 255. - 255. A steam vessel going in the same direction as...

Section 256. - 256. When any steam vessel is running in the night-time...

Section 257. - 257. Every person in charge of a steam vessel who...

Section 258. - 258. The person in charge of any vessel at anchor...

Section 259. - 259. Neither the master nor the owner of any vesel...

Section 260. - 260. Every raft of timber floated on the Sacramento or...

Section 261. - 261. Every steam vessel navigating any waters of this State...

Section 262. - 262. Every master or owner, and each of them, of...

Section 263. - 263. Every person in charge of a steam vessel navigating...

Section 264. - 264. (a) A captain or other person having charge of...

Section 265. - 265. The owners of every steam vessel are responsible for...

Section 266. - 266. The penalties established by this chapter may be recovered...

Section 268. - 268. (a) Counties or cities may adopt restrictions concerning the...

CHAPTER 3 - Losses

ARTICLE 1 - Navigation Rules

Section 280. - 280. The provisions of this article in addition to the...

Section 281. - 281. Whenever any vessel, whether a steam vessel or sailing...

Section 282. - 282. Sailing vessels, having the wind fair, shall give way...

Section 283. - 283. A steam vessel navigating a narrow channel shall, whenever...

Section 284. - 284. When steam vessels will inevitably or necessarily cross so...

Section 285. - 285. The rules of this article do not apply to...

ARTICLE 2 - Liability

Section 290. - 290. If a collision is occasioned by failure to observe...

Section 291. - 291. Damage to person or property arising from the failure...

Section 292. - 292. Losses caused by collision are to be borne as...

Section 293. - 293. Where damage arises out of, or is caused directly...

Section 294. - 294. (a) Any person responsible for natural gas, oil, drilling...

CHAPTER 4 - Offenses

Section 300. - 300. A person who willfully and maliciously cuts, breaks, injures,...

Section 301. - 301. A person who willfully and maliciously cuts, breaks, or...

Section 302. - 302. A person who willfully and maliciously sinks or sets...

Section 303. - 303. A person who willfully and maliciously burns, injures, or...

Section 304. - 304. A person in command or charge of a vessel,...

Section 305. - 305. A person, other than one described in Section 304...

Section 306. - 306. A person who prepares, makes, or subscribes a false...

Section 307. - 307. (a) A person who moors a vessel to, or...

Section 308. - 308. A person who moors a vessel of any kind,...

Section 309. - 309. A person found guilty of a misdemeanor violation as...

Section 310. - 310. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person found...