§ 2213 — Rentals of personal watercraft

(a) No person shall rent a personal watercraft to any person who does not hold a valid automobile driver’s license.

(b) No person shall rent a personal watercraft to any person unless and until such personal watercraft is conspicuously marked with the word “rental” and such other markings as are designated by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.

(c) No person shall rent a personal watercraft to any person without explaining to the person the areas where the personal watercraft is and is not allowed to be operated. A printed map or chart of the area where the person is permitted to operate shall be provided by the person from whom the personal watercraft is rented.

(d) No person shall rent a personal watercraft to any person without providing, at the site where such personal watercraft is rented, a vessel equipped to render assistance, guidance and policing of rented personal watercraft.

(e) The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control shall prepare educational material setting forth excerpts from or a summary of the pertinent provisions of this subchapter and subchapter III of this chapter and information pertinent to personal watercraft safety. Any person who is in the business of renting personal watercraft shall be furnished this material without charge.

(f) No person who is in the business of renting personal watercraft shall rent a personal watercraft to any person without obtaining from such person a written acknowledgment that the educational material prepared by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control pursuant to subsection (e) of this section has been read and understood.

Legislative History

68 Del. Laws, c. 185, § 3 ; 72 Del. Laws, c. 358, §§ 4, 5