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Description

The commercial boat rental for the exercise of public use by third parties (boats with a length of up to 9.20 m) regularly requires a navigation permit if the providers or organizers (including entrepreneurs acting on a supra-local basis) will essentially always act purposefully on a specific body of water or one or more specific stretches of water. Only if there is a complete lack of reference to a body of water can such a reference be dispensable. It must then be the responsibility of the lessee to collect the vehicle from the lessor and return it to the lessor. In addition, it must be up to the renter which body of water he uses.

Rafting tours with boats longer than 9.20 m must always be approved by the local district administrative authority (lower water authority) in terms of navigation law.

The district administrative authority examines the application in particular with regard to nature conservation, water management, navigation, fishing and safety aspects. The district administrative authority may involve the specialist agencies concerned in this process.

The district administrative authority may issue legal ordinances, general orders or orders in individual cases for the exercise of public use. In particular, the district administrative authority may issue regulations to prevent dangers to life, health, property, property-like rights or property, to maintain the safety and ease of traffic, to protect nature, in particular flora and fauna, or the water body and its banks, to regulate recreational traffic or to ensure the use of a water body on the basis of permits, authorizations, old rights and old powers or the owner and riparian use.

Prerequisites

Rafting with boats up to 9.20 m in length by the participants may not exceed the limits of public use under water law. The prerequisite for this is in particular that the rafting is possible without illegal use of other people's land and does not lead to any significant impairment of the water, the banks and the flora and fauna.

A permit for rafting with boats over 9.20 m in length may be refused or granted with incidental conditions if the public welfare, the safety and ease of traffic, public tranquility, the protection of property or fisheries or the maintenance of the cleanliness or upkeep of the water body requires it.

In all other respects, reference is made to the obligation to notify or obtain approval for sporting events, advertising events and other events on the water in accordance with §§ 51, 52 BaySchiffV at the locally responsible district administrative authority.

Deadlines

Sporting events with small vehicles without their own motive power must be notified to the district administrative authority at least two weeks in advance.

Required documents

• Indication of type, place (e.g. also entry and exit point) and time of the event and expected number of participants
• Description of the boats

Fees

• Costs of €50 to €250 may be incurred for the issuance of a shipping permit.

Legal bases

• Art. 18 Abs. 1 und Abs. 3 Bayerisches Wassergesetz (BayWG)
• Art. 28 Abs. 4 und Abs. 5 Bayerisches Wassergesetz (BayWG)
• § 1 Verordnung für die Schiffahrt auf den bayerischen Gewässern (Bayerische Schifffahrtsverordnung - BaySchiffV)
• § 2 Verordnung für die Schifffahrt auf den bayerischen Gewässern (Bayerische Schifffahrtsverordnung - BaySchiffV)
• § 3 Verordnung für die Schifffahrt auf den bayerischen Gewässern (Bayerische Schifffahrtsverordnung - BaySchiffV)
• § 51 Verordnung für die Schiffahrt auf den bayerischen Gewässern (Bayerische Schifffahrtsverordnung - BaySchiffV)
• § 52 Verordnung für die Schiffahrt auf den bayerischen Gewässern (Bayerische Schifffahrtsverordnung - BaySchiffV)

Related issues

• Inland waterways; application for authorisation to hire pleasure craft on a commercial basis