Boating

Boat

Where tin can I register a boat?

The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) Office in Augusta is the central role for boat registrations and registration records. Many Maine municipal tax collectors or town clerks are Recreational Vehicle Agents for MDIFW.

Boat registrations may be renewed online if your town is role of the program. This online service allows you to annals your Gunkhole (vessel) with the Country of Maine. Post-obit your transaction, you lot will receive a confirmation page to print for immediate use. Your official registration and stickers will get in at the shipping address specified within thirty days.

If you are registering a watercraft at the Augusta office or in a town other than your boondocks of legal residence, yous must commencement pay your excise taxation in your town of residence. Be sure you take a receipt that shows the annual excise taxation has been paid on your watercraft or your watercraft cannot be registered at another location.

  1. All motorboats of any size, including airmobiles and personal watercraft, must be registered in Maine to exist used on the waters of this State, except the post-obit:
  2. Watercraft required to have a valid marine document as a watercraft of the United states. Vessels over 5 net ton used for commercial fishing must be documented. Phone call the U.S. Declension Baby-sit at ane-800-799-8362 for further information;
  3. Watercraft with valid registration from another state, provided the watercraft registration number is displayed on the motorboat and the motorboat will not be in Maine over threescore consecutive days later the state of chief employ has been changed;
  4. Armed services or public watercraft, except recreational type watercraft of the United States;
  5. A motorboat owned by the United states of america, a land, or subdivision thereof, which is used for governmental purposes and clearly identifiable as such;
  6. A ship'southward lifeboat;
  7. Motorboats from another country which are not within Maine over 60 sequent days; and
  8. Motorboats used exclusively for racing purposes and displaying a valid boat number issued by a recognized racing clan.

Fees (*Fee includes $ane.00 agent fee.)

0-10 Horsepower Motor - $31.00* with lake and river protection sticker
0-ten Horsepower Motor - $16.00* without lake and river protection sticker

xi-50 Horsepower Motor - $36.00* with lake and river protection sticker
11-fifty Horsepower Motor - $21.00* without lake and river protection sticker

51-115 Horsepower Motor - $42.00* with lake and river protection sticker
51-115 Horsepower Motor - $27.00* without lake and river protection sticker

Over 116 Horsepower Motor - $50.00* with lake and river protection sticker
Over 116 Horsepower Motor - $35.00* without lake and river protection sticker

Personal Watercraft - $50.00* with lake and river protection sticker
Personal Watercraft - $35.00* without lake and river protection sticker

Indistinguishable Boat Registration - $1.00 agent fee

Duplicate Gunkhole Registration & Sticker - $2.00

Boat Temporary Transfer - $four.00

Agents may accuse a fee of $ane.00 for renewals and duplicates, and $2.00 for new registrations, rollovers, or transfers.

Boat excise tax must be paid by a resident to the revenue enhancement collector of their boondocks before registration. A nonresident, prior to registering a motorboat which is located in Maine more than 75 days during a calendar year, must pay an excise tax to the Maine town where the boat is principally moored, docked or located. If the gunkhole is exempt from tax, a tax exemption grade must be completed past the possessor and submitted with registration application and registration fee.

Proof of payment of sales tax is required for new registrations (resident and nonresident).

Registrations may exist obtained from licensing agents or by mail. For applications and agent information delight call (207) 287-8000.

Watercraft registrations are issued for a specific calendar year and are valid through Dec 31st of the yr issued.

Lake and River Protection Sticker required.