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Harb. & Nav. Code, § 729 · Article 2. Yacht and Ship Brokers

Harb. & Nav. Code, § 729

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

(a) Every license issued to a partnership entitles one partner thereof on behalf of the partnership to engage in the business of yacht broker without the payment of any further fee and such partner shall be designated in the application of the partnership for a license.

(b) When a broker’s license is issued to a partnership, if the partnership desires any partner or partners other than the partner designated by it as provided in this section to act under its license as a broker, the partnership shall procure an additional broker’s license for each of such additional partner or partners. For each partner other than the partner designated through whom the partnership engages in the business of yacht broker, the appropriate original or renewal fee shall be paid in addition to the fee paid by the partnership.

(c) Each partner of a partnership is licensed to act as a broker while such a partner under such license is a licensed broker, but is licensed only to act as such for and on behalf of the partnership.

(d) A partner of a partnership licensed to act as a broker on behalf of the partnership who desires also to act as a broker or salesman under this article on the partner’s own behalf shall procure a separate license in accordance with the provisions of this article.

(e) The department may deny, suspend, or revoke the broker’s license of a partnership as to any partner acting under its license without revoking the license of the partnership.

(f) Every partnership making an application for a license under this article shall set forth in the application the name of the partner who is to act under the license for and on behalf of the partnership.

(g) Every partnership licensed under the provisions of this article may substitute another partner for the one named in the partnership license provided the person to be substituted qualifies as provided for in this article for a broker’s license and the partnership pays the appropriate original, renewal, or transfer fee as set forth in this article.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 453.

Source of truth

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https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HNC&sectionNum=729.
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