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A. No vessel may remain in a position which interferes with the mooring or passage of another vessel or creates a danger to persons, vessels or property after the port director has ordered it to move.

B. No person may obstruct a municipal slip, basin, channel or wharf so as to interfere with the mooring, passage or activity of a vessel. The port director may remove any such obstruction if the owner thereof fails to do so within twenty-four (24) hours after its discovery by the port director.

C. No person may tie or attach a skiff, scow, raft or any other auxiliary craft alongside, astern or ahead of a vessel moored within the port of Bethel if such auxiliary craft will obstruct or interfere with the normal movement of any vessel or be likely to cause rubbing or chafing damage to any other vessel.

D. No structure, material or substance that can sink in water or obstruct navigation may be deposited in the small boat harbor, city docks or the shores of the small boat harbor or city docks unless written permission is first (1st) obtained from the port director.

E. When ballast, stone, coal, bricks, scrap, dirt, rubbish or other loose material or matter that can sink in water is being unloaded from or loaded onto a vessel, a canvas chute or similar contrivance shall be used to prevent spills into the waterway.

F. The owner of a vessel which sinks, is grounded or is delayed so as to interfere with navigation, obstruct the port, or endanger persons or property shall post warnings on the vessel that can be seen during the day and night and remove the vessel as soon as possible. [Ord. 17-11 § 2.]