(A) Damage to bridges.
(1) (a) Whenever any person having charge of any vessel, craft, or float shall wish to move the same past any bridge, reasonable time shall be allowed for the opening of the bridge.
(b) Any person who shall move any vessel, craft, or float against any bridge before the same shall be opened shall be deemed guilty of violating the provisions of this chapter and shall also be answerable to the city for damages.
(2) Whenever any person having charge of any vessel, craft, or float shall wish to move the same through the draw of any bridge, reasonable time shall be allowed for the opening of the same; and any person who shall move any vessel, craft, or float against any bridge or the center or protection piers thereof before the same shall be opened to the injury thereof, and any person who shall otherwise, through willfulness or negligence, run any vessel, craft, or float into any bridge or abutment thereof, or allow the vessel, craft, or float to be driven or run into the piers, cribs, docks, bridge, or abutment, or who shall take any stones from the crib for ballast or any other purpose shall, upon conviction, be subject to the penalty provided in this chapter and shall, in addition, be liable for all damages thus caused. Any vessel, craft, or float, whose owner, master, or other person in charge shall become liable as provided in this section, shall also be chargeable with the payment of the penalty and damages and amounts shall be and constitute a lien on a vessel, craft, or float to be enforced as provided by law.
(Prior Code, § 101.23)
(B) Report of accidents to docks, piers, and bridges. The managing owner, agent, or master of any vessel, craft, or float who shall run any vessel, craft, or float into any of the docks, piers, clumps, bridges, or abutment or allow the vessel, craft, or float to be driven or run into the pier, dock, clump, bridge, or abutment shall make immediately a report, in writing, to the Harbor Master of the Chief of Police signed by the managing owner, agent, or master of the vessel and shall state the name and official number of the vessel, the port to which it belongs, the place where it was, the nature and probable cause of and the reason for the injury.
(Prior Code, § 101.24)