We heard a lot from live-aboards who do recognize that there is a continuum. A live-aboard may not be well cared for. People are facing affordable housing problems, and people fall on economic hard times. In the absence of a vessel turn-in program, as other jurisdictions have developed, people sometimes simply aren't able to keep their boats afloat. I note that the ship-source oil pollution fund in its reporting said that over a 10-year period, 51% of the people to whom they sent a bill for cleaning up an abandoned vessel lacked financial assets to pay that bill. Many of them were not found, unknown, or did not respond.
I'm concerned that someone who gets sent a fine under this program is not going to be able to pay it anyway. Did you design this legislation with the express intent of looking at the affordability problems and economic hard times, and also people's ability to pay?