How Much Is Registering A Boat Cost In Oregon

In this May 5, 2011, file photo, fishermen in motorboats form a "hog line" during the Spring Chinook Salmon run on the Willamette River in Oregon City, Ore.

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon State Marine Board plans to ask the Legislature to increase registration fees paid by motorized boaters.

The Mail Tribune reports that the board expects to ask the Legislature in 2019 for a ii-year budget of nigh $33 million. The agency is funded by registrations, title fees and marine fuel taxes paid by motorized boaters. It receives no state general fund or Oregon Lottery money.

If canonical by the 2019 Legislature, powerboat registration fees would rise from the current $iv.50 per foot to $five.95 per pes.

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The Marine Board governs Oregon waterways. The agency also pays for county marine law enforcement, oversees guides and outfitter programs and funds the invasive species program and cheque stations operated by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

An increase to the powerboat-registration fee is one of eight "concepts" the agency plans to take to the Legislature in 2019, the Mail Tribune reported.

Another is a new waterways access permit to begin Jan 2020 that would cost $five a week, $17 a yr or $xxx for 2 years for non-motorized boats 10 feet and longer. It would replace the electric current $v annual Aquatic Invasive Species permit.

Like the current invasive-species permits, the new permits would be transferable to other boats owned by let holders, and the bureau would look to collectively sell about 58,000 of the three allow options annually, Marine Board spokeswoman Ashley Massey said.

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The invasive species program would still get its $ane.65 million every two years from the new allow. The remaining coin — estimated at $1.3 million in its first full biennium — would go toward projects that meliorate access for kayakers and rafters, who have more often than not been relegated to boat ramps and other facilities designed for powerboats.

Other proposals include changes to outfitter and charter boat registrations and fees, a one-time increase to boater registration cards from $10 to $twenty, and a program to allow the Marine Board to increase card suspensions from ane year to three years for canoeing under the influence of intoxicants and a new one-yr pause for reckless boating.

The Marine Board also wants gunkhole-rental companies to register with information technology and provide information about the numbers and types of boats they rent. There would exist no charge.

The proposals also would require all boaters to "pull the plug" and open any vales to drain standing water while a boat is transported over land. Violations would bear a $30 fine for a not-motorized gunkhole and $50 for trailered motorized boats.

The agency plans to bout the land to gather public input on its ideas. The starting time open house-mode coming together is July 10 in White City.