SECTION:
4.20.010: Definitions
4.20.020: Restrictions On Use Of Waterways Within City
4.20.030: Designated Public Swimming Areas
4.20.040: Designated Public Swimming Only Areas
4.20.050: No Swimming And Diving Areas
4.20.060: Vessel Mooring; Time; Other Restrictions At City Docks
4.20.070: Buoys
4.20.080: Exceptions
4.20.090: Enforcement And Penalties
Notes
| 1 | 1. See also title 8, chapter 8.20 of this code. |
For the purpose of this chapter the following words and phrases have the following meanings:
EXCESSIVE WAKE: | A wave resulting from operating a vessel at the speed at which boats create the most wake, moving quickly and displacing the most water, i.e., plowing; or the wave resulting from operating a vessel in an artificially bow-high manner to increase or enhance a wake, including wake enhancement by use of ballast, mechanical hydrofoils, or uneven loading; or the wave resulting from operating a vessel to cause water to lap onto or over a dock, pier, or other lawfully permitted encroachment. |
LENGTH OF VESSEL: | The distance measured at the centerline at the highest point above the water line from the fore part of the outer hull at the bow to the aft part of the outer hull at the stern, excepting any bowsprits, railings or extraneous or additional equipment. |
MOTOR DRIVEN WATERCRAFT: | Any boat or vehicle of any type which is propelled by any type of motor or machinery including "personal watercraft". |
NIGHT: | One-half (1/2) hour after sunset until one-half (1/2) hour before sunrise. |
NO WAKE ZONE: | An area in which a vessel may be operated at not more than five (5) miles per hour or in a manner where no wake greater than four inches (4") in height is created, whichever is less. |
PERSONAL WATERCRAFT: | A small vessel which uses an outboard motor or an inboard motor powering a water jet pump as its primary source of power and is designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing or kneeling on, rather than in the conventional manner of sitting or standing inside the vessel. |
SHORELINE OF THE CITY OF COEUR D'ALENE: | The line of demarcation between water and land at the time in question without regard to property lines or high and low water lines or marks within the city limits of Coeur d'Alene. |
TOY BOATS: | A small motor driven craft not designed to be used as a means of transportation that is typically controlled by remote control. |
VESSEL: | Every description of watercraft, including motor driven watercraft and seaplanes on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, but does not include diver's aids operated and designed primarily to propel a diver below the surface of the water, and nonmotorized devices not designed or modified to be used as a means of transportation on the water, such as inflatable air mattresses and inner tubes. |
WAKE: | The visible track of turbulence created by the movement of a vessel through the water. (Ord. 3690 §1, 2021: Ord. 3382 §17, 2010) |
A. Lake Coeur d'Alene:
1. No person shall operate, navigate, cause to float, moor or anchor any motor driven watercraft or toy boat of any length or any sail powered vessel longer than twenty feet (20') within designated public swimming areas created by this chapter.
2. No person shall operate, navigate, cause to float, moor or anchor any vessel or toy boat within designated public swimming only areas created by this chapter.
3. No person shall operate or navigate any vessel in any waters within two hundred feet (200') of any shoreline or any dock, pier, other structure or person in Lake Coeur d'Alene at a speed greater than five (5) miles per hour.
4. All persons operating or navigating any vessel within one hundred feet (100') of any other structure or person in Lake Coeur d'Alene shall do so at a speed that is reasonable and prudent, but not in excess of fifteen (15) miles per hour.
5. No person shall operate or navigate a vessel at night, when the speed is not otherwise restricted, at a speed greater than twenty (20) miles per hour.
6. All persons operating or navigating a vessel during the day, where the speed is not otherwise restricted, shall do so at a speed that is reasonable and prudent for conditions, but not in excess of fifty (50) miles per hour.
7. No person shall operate or propel any person on water skis, aquaplane or similar contrivance within five hundred feet (500') of the shoreline of the city of Coeur d'Alene.
B. Spokane River:
1. No person shall operate, navigate, cause to float, moor or anchor any vessel longer than twenty feet (20') within a designated public swimming area created by this chapter.
2. No person shall operate, navigate, cause to float, moor or anchor any vessel within designated public swimming only areas created by this chapter.
3. From the mouth of the Spokane River to the south end of the University of Idaho-Coeur d’Alene (Harbor Center) building is declared a “no wake zone.”
4. Within one hundred feet (100') of any shoreline or any dock, pier, other structure, or person is declared a “no wake zone”.
5. No person shall operate or navigate any vessel in any waters between one hundred feet (100') and one hundred fifty feet (150') of any shoreline or any dock, pier, other structure, or person at a speed which creates an excessive wake.
6. All persons operating or navigating any vessel within fifty feet (50') of any other vessel, where the speed is not otherwise restricted, shall do so at a speed that is reasonable and prudent, but not in excess of fifteen (15) miles per hour.
7. No person shall operate or navigate a vessel at night, where the speed is not otherwise restricted, at a speed greater than twenty (20) miles per hour.
8. During the day, where the speed is not otherwise regulated, all persons operating or navigating a vessel shall do so at a speed that is reasonable and prudent, but not in excess of thirty-five (35) miles per hour.
9. During the day or night, no vessel shall be operated at a speed or in a manner that creates an excessive, dangerous, or damaging wake.
10. The Spokane River shall be automatically designated as a "no wake zone" in its entirety whenever the gauge on the Coeur d'Alene Lake at Tubbs Hill reads two thousand one hundred thirty-three feet (2,133') or higher. The designation shall expire when the conditions giving rise to the designation no longer exist, except as may be provided by a resolution of the City Council.
11. This subsection shall not apply to any vessel being operated under emergency conditions or by any authorized agent of any law enforcement agency of the state of Idaho, the United States, or any political subdivision, while said agent is acting in the performance of his/her duties. (Ord. 3690 §2, 2021: Ord. 3382 §17, 2010)
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