“What is the difference between a Boating Citation and a Traffic Citation?”
Let’s start with the similarities: Both boating and traffic citations are notices which are issued to car or boat operators by law enforcement officers for violations of law.
Some are technical (in the case of a car it could be an equipment violation like a broken taillight or a missing side view mirror and for a boat it could be for illegible FL numbers or a safety equipment violation) and others are substantive (again, in the case of a car it could be for speeding or for careless driving and for a boat it could be for putting out an excessive wake, reckless operation, bow riding, or any of a number of other violations). (You can find most Traffic Laws in Chapter 316 FL Statutes and most Boating Laws in Chapter 327 FL Statutes). Also, most boating and traffic citations are “civil infractions”, meaning that they are payable without criminal consequence.
But there are other differences as well. Although most boating citations are infractions many jurisdictions, including Miami-Dade County, administratively assign a misdemeanor case number to the citation, making it appear, and act as a criminal, as opposed to a civil, offense.
Before you pay any boating citation (or traffic for that matter) you would be well advised to run it by a lawyer. You will want to make sure that you are not inadvertently creating a criminal record for yourself.
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