(a) No person shall operate a vessel within or through a designated bathing area or within or through any area that has been buoyed off designating it as an area in which vessels are prohibited.
(b) (1) No person shall operate a vessel at greater than idle speed or at a speed that creates a wake under any of the following circumstances:
A. Within three hundred feet of any marina, boat docking facility, boat gasoline dock, launch ramp, recreational boat harbor, or harbor entrance on Lake Erie;
B. Within any area buoyed or marked as a no wake area on the waters in this Park District.
(2) Subsection (b)(1) of this section does not apply in an area designated by the Chief of the Division of Watercraft unless it is marked by a buoy or sign as a no wake or idle speed area.
(c) No person shall operate a vessel in any area of restricted or controlled operation in violation of the designated restriction.
(d) No person shall operate a vessel within three hundred feet of an official diver's flag unless the person is tendering the diving operation.
(e) All areas of restricted or controlled operation as described in subsection (a) of this section or as provided for in Section 1547.14 or 1547.61 of the Ohio Revised Code shall be marked by a buoy or sign designating the restriction. All waters surrounded by or lying between such a buoy or sign and the closest shoreline are thereby designated as an area in which the designated restrictions shall apply in the operation of any vessel.
(f) No person shall enter, operate a vessel that enters, or allow a vessel to enter a federally declared security zone as defined in 33 C.F.R. Chapter I, subparts 6.01-1, 6.01-2, 6.01- 3, 6.01-4, 6.01-5, 6.04-1, 6.04-5, 6.04-6, 6.04-7, and 6.04-8.
(g) No person shall permit any vessel to be operated on the waters in this Park District in violation of this section.
(h) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(ORC 1547.08)