N.J.S.A. 12:7B-1 — Craft required to carry and display lights

12:7B-1. Craft required to carry and display lights Every rowboat, canoe, sailboat or craft propelled by hand or foot, operating on any fresh water lake lying wholly within the State and having a total area of not less than 3 1/2 square miles, shall from sunset to sunrise carry and display lights when under way or at anchor as follows: (a) a bright white light aft to show all around the horizon visible at a distance of at least 2 miles; and (b) in addition, if 26 feet or over in length, on the starboard (right side) a green light and on the port (left side) a red light both so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass visible at a distance of at least 1 mile, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam, and fitted with inboard screens of sufficient length and height to prevent such lights from being visible across the bow. L.1957, c. 111, p. 216, s. 1, eff. June 28, 1957.

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