Every rowboat and motorboat in all weathers from sunset to sunrise shall carry and exhibit the following lights when under way and during the time no other light which may be mistaken for the lights shall be carried or exhibited:
(A) Every rowboat shall carry ready at hand, a lantern or flashlight showing a white light which shall be exhibited in sufficient time to avert collision.
(B) Every motorboat of Classes A and 1 shall carry the following lights:
(1) A bright white light aft to show all around the horizon; and
(2) A combined lantern in the forepart of the vessel and lower than the white light aft, showing a green light to starboard and a red light to port, so fixed as to throw a light from straight ahead to two points abaft the beam on their respective sides.
(C) Every motorboat of Classes 2 and 3 shall carry the following lights:
(1) A bright white light in the forepart of the vessel as near the stern as practicable so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 20 points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on each side of the vessel; namely, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side;
(2) A bright white light aft to show all around the horizon and higher than the white light forward; and
(3) On the starboard side a green light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon ten points of the compass so fixed as to throw the light from straight ahead to two points abaft the beam on the starboard side. On the port side, a red light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass so fixed as to throw the light from straight ahead to two points abaft the beam on the port side. The sidelights shall be fitted with inboard screens of sufficient height and so set as to prevent these lights from being seen across the bow.
(D) Motorboats of Classes 2 and 3, when propelled by sail and by machinery or by sail alone, shall carry the colored side lights, suitably screened, but not the white lights prescribed by this section; provided that motorboats of all classes when so propelled shall carry ready at hand a lantern or flashlight showing a white light which shall be exhibited in sufficient time to avert collision; provided that motorboats of Classes A and 1, when so propelled, shall not be required to carry the combined lantern prescribed in division (B)(2) above.
(1980 Code, § 13.603) Penalty, see § 97.99