Information needed regarding motors and kayaks

I'd like to install a small Minn Kota style motor on one of my kayaks, but was wondering what are the regulations for doing so. Does anything that hits the water with a motor need a vessel number? Does it matter that the motor is temporary and not a permanent installation? Could someone point in the direction for paperwork that would be needed to apply for a vessel number etc.?

Thanks

legally a motor equals registration

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/boatsinfo/boatreg.htm

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/boatsinfo/boatreg.htm

Thanks I kinda poked around the site earlier. Hopefully I can get some feed back from others that have done this.

Once it is a registered yak From what I have heard it will always have to be.  Not a good Idea in my book.

Correct.  Motor=lifelong registration.  No non-op on boats.

Found this out the hard way.  Next time it comes due it will have been sold cash to some guy I can't remember.

lol, lifelong registration.....or 5 years as unregistered and it drops off the dmv computer system....or you just scrape the numbers off the side of the boat and nobody is the wiser.

Or, get a torque and they'll never know it's motorized.  Just Kabuki paddle.

Bushy

 

  I think a motor kinda defeats the purpose of having a kayak. Yes my OB has a propulsion device, (its drive,) but I still use a paddle.