(A) It shall be the duty of the Harbor Master to report to the City Engineer any and all encroachments upon the harbor lines, and thereupon the officers shall take action as may be necessary to remove or cause to be removed any obstruction or encroachment. If it shall be found that any pile, stone, timber, earth, dock, bridge, or other obstruction whatever has been placed in any part of the harbor in violation of the provisions of this section, and that the person who has placed or caused the same to be placed therein refuses or neglects to remove the obstruction upon being requested so to do by the Harbor Master, City Engineer or Board of Public Safety, the officers, and Board or either of them shall have the power and it is made their duty to proceed forthwith to inform the federal government. Upon the authorization of the federal government, the city officer shall remove the obstruction and charge the expense of the removal to the person who placed or caused to be placed the obstruction in the harbor, and the imposition of any fine or penalty provided for or against any person obstructing the harbor shall not be held to exempt any person from a recovery by the city of the cost of removing any obstruction.
(B) Every pile, timber, stone, or other substance placed or laid so as to project above or below the surface of the waters of the harbor or any part thereof or beyond any dock line established by its duly authorized agencies is declared a nuisance; and every person who shall place or lay any pile, timber, stone, or substance or the owner of any premises on which the same shall be so placed or laid shall be deemed guilty of violating the provisions of this chapter.
(C) Any person having charge of any raft of lumber, logs, or timber who shall refuse or neglect to comply with the orders of the Harbor Master, relative to the change of location or removal of the same, shall be deemed guilty of violating the provisions of this chapter. Any owner, master, or officer of any tug, propeller, or steamboat leaving any raft of lumber, logs, or timber within the harbor, where the same shall be or become an obstruction to commerce, shall be deemed guilty of violating the provisions of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 101.11) Penalty, see § 96.999