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It is unlawful for any owner, master, operator or managing agent or other person to commit any of the following acts within the small boat harbor:

A. To operate or cause to be operated any boat in a reckless manner and in willful and wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property within the limits of the boat harbor.

B. To operate or cause to be operated any boat in a negligent manner likely to endanger the safety of persons or property, within the limits of the boat harbor.

C. To operate any boat in a manner which shall unreasonably or unnecessarily interfere with other watercraft or vessels or with the free and proper navigation of the waterways of the boat harbor.

D. To operate or cause any boat to be operated recklessly or otherwise engage in a course of conduct that is dangerous or a nuisance to persons or property.

E. Throw or otherwise cause to be deposited any gasoline, oil, sewage, trash, garbage or debris of any type into the water’s entrance or upon the grounds of the small boat harbor.

F. Create, become or maintain any nuisance.

G. To leave any boat, vessel or floating structure moored at any of the boat harbor facilities unattended while any fire is burning thereon, unless such fire is in a range, stove, space heater or furnace. The fuel flow to such range, stove, space heater or furnace shall not be controlled by a drip-valve carburetor, but rather by a safe control of a type approved by the port director. Any fire shall be deemed unattended unless the owner or operator is within one hundred (100) feet of the boat, or some person over the age of eighteen (18) years and capable of moving the boat or vessel is aboard or within one hundred (100) feet of the same.

H. To deposit, place, or leave any cargo, merchandise, supplies, freight, articles or other objects upon any float, ramp, decline, walk or other public place in the boat harbor excepting at such places as may be designated as loading and unloading spaces by the port director. Materials used in repairing or rebuilding boats shall not be stored on any float or dock.

I. To tap, connect, disconnect, interfere with or tamper with any water outlet, water pipe, water connection or any electrical wiring, electrical outlet or electrical device of any kind, installed or maintained in the boat harbor, without first (1st) having obtained the permission of the port director; or to interfere with or tamper with any wharf, float, gangplank, ramp or any other facility of the boat harbor.

J. To write or post any written or printed matter or sign upon any bulletin board constructed or maintained by the city in the boat harbor without first (1st) having obtained permission of the port director. To disregard, deface, remove, tamper with, or damage any sign or notice posted by the port director.

K. Fail to register with the port director any boat prior to occupying the small boat harbor facilities.

L. To land an aircraft or floatplane, operate either within, or cause an aircraft or floatplane to take off from the small boat harbor or the entrance thereto.

M. To erect, place, post or maintain any advertising matter, sign or other printed matter other than legal notices on any part of the boat harbor facilities, without approval thereof first (1st) being obtained from the assembly. All unauthorized advertising and signs shall be removed by the port director.

N. To disregard, deface, remove, tamper with or damage any sign or notice posted or erected by the port director relating to the use of mooring areas or other uses of the boat harbor.

O. To moor or anchor any boat, vessel or other floating structure within two hundred (200) feet of any of the float, dock facilities or entrances or exits of the boat harbor in such a manner as to obstruct access to the boat harbor or its float and dock facilities.

P. To install or secure to any float, dock or stall, either permanently or temporarily, any bumper other than standardized pre-molded rubber or vinyl bumpers of a commercial manufacturer approved by the port director.

Q. To conduct any commercially oriented business enterprise at the boat harbor facilities unless specifically authorized as provided under this title. Preparation and repair of a commercial fishing boat or its gear and the pick-up and discharge of charter passengers by boats or aircraft renting space in the boat harbor is not conduct of a commercially oriented business within the meaning of this subsection.

R. To allow dog(s) or any other animal to run at large. Dog(s) shall be on a leash and accompanied by the owner who shall be responsible for removing any offal left by the animal. To allow or permit any dog or animal to be tethered or restrained to any part of a float, or to permit any dog to urinate or defecate on the floats. Only the dogs of owners of boats legally moored in the harbor, or the dogs of the guests of such boat owners, shall be permitted on the floats, but then only when on a leash and for such minimum time as is necessary to go between the boat and shore.

S. Operate on any wharf or float any wheeled conveyance including, but not limited to, three (3) wheelers, motorcycles, bicycles, tricycles, in or on which a person or persons is carried or transported, with the exception of wheelchairs, and those conveyances used only to transport provisions to and from the boat.

T. Dump any offal or refuse within the small boat harbor or in such close proximity as to cause overflow or drift of such material into the small boat harbor or the entrance thereto.

U. Improperly store any explosives, explosive gases, gasoline, or any other flammable substance in drums, cans or other type of container within the small boat harbor or a vessel located in the small boat harbor facilities.

V. Refuse to comply with any lawful order of the port director or their designee. [Ord. 17-11 § 2.]