“Vessel” includes ships of all kinds, steamboats, steamships, canal boats, barges, sailing vessels, and every structure adapted to be navigated from place to place for the transportation of merchandise or persons.
Cal. Harb. & Nav. Code § 21
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Known as the Harbors and Navigation Code
The act spans §§ 1–25 (26 sections).
Applied in 23 court decisions — leading case United States v. Becker (1990)
Most recently applied in 9 Cal. 5th 111 - People v. Orozco (March 2020)
Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.