A sale, purchase, or transfer of a vessel or outboard motor is subject to this chapter. All other owners are required to obtain title certificates when their vessel registration becomes due for renewal or execute an affidavit properly notarized that he is the true owner of the vessel or outboard motor. A person making a false statement in an application or affidavit for registration, new, transfer, or renewal, a hull identification or serial number, a bill of sale, or other document submitted to the department is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days.