15 CFR § 922.81 - Definitions.

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title: "15 CFR § 922.81 - Definitions."
title_number: 15
title_name: "Commerce and Foreign Trade"
section_number: "922.81"
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chapter_name: "NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE"
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subchapter_name: "OCEAN AND COASTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT"
part_number: "922"
part_name: "NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY PROGRAM REGULATIONS"
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authority: "16 U.S.C. 1431"
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# 922.81 Definitions.

In addition to those definitions found at § 922.11, the following definitions apply to this subpart:

*Motorized personal watercraft* means a vessel which uses an inboard motor powering a water jet pump as its primary source of motive power and which is designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing, or kneeling on the vessel, rather than the conventional manner of sitting or standing inside the vessel.

*Routine maintenance* means customary and standard procedures for maintaining docks or piers.

*Special Wildlife Protection Zones* are areas surrounding or adjacent to high abundance of white sharks, breeding pinnipeds (seals and sea lions) or high abundance and high biological diversity of breeding birds that are susceptible to human caused disturbance, including federally listed and specially protected species. Coordinates for Special Wildlife Protection Zones are found in appendix C of this Subpart.

[80 FR 13108, Mar. 12, 2015, as amended at 88 FR 965, Jan. 6, 2023; 88 FR 19826, Apr. 4, 2023]