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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="19-401" title_number="19" title_name="Miscellaneous State Business Regulation" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Boat Sales">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Beneficial owner” means a person for whose benefit a boat broker is entrusted to hold money.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Boat” means any vessel that is propelled by sail or machinery in the water.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Boat broker” means a person who provides boat brokerage services for another person.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Boat broker trust account” means an account that a broker maintains at a financial institution for the deposit of trust money.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Boat brokerage services” means to engage in any of the following activities for an expectation of compensation:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>selling a boat, offering to sell a boat, or negotiating to sell a boat;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>buying a boat, offering to buy a boat, or negotiating to buy a boat;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>soliciting or obtaining a listing of a boat; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>negotiating the purchase, sale, or exchange of a boat.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Trust money” means a deposit, payment, or other money that a person entrusts to a boat broker to hold for the benefit of the person or a beneficial owner.</text>
  </level>
</section>
