(A) The purpose of this chapter is to protect the public health, safety and welfare by:
(1) Prohibiting long-term stowage of boats and other watercraft on the public beach, where their safe storage is threatened by storms, high tides, erosion and hurricanes;
(2) Prohibiting on-going destruction of the dune system from long-term boat and watercraft stowage on the beach.
(B) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOAT or WATERCRAFT. Any wooden, fiberglass, plastic or metal raft, row boat, motorboat, sailboat, mobile cat, wind surfboard, catamaran, skull, kayak, jet ski or waverunner.
PUBLIC BEACH. All that area seaward of the ocean baseline, roughly defined as any area seaward of existing seawalls bordering the Atlantic Ocean, including all primary and secondary sand dunes, also to include any public access or public beach walkway.
(C) No person owning, possessing or controlling a boat or other watercraft shall place or allow it to be placed on the public beach for any period in excess of 12 hours or at any time after sunset.
(D) The bringing onto or removal from the beach of any boat or watercraft which results in damage to primary or secondary dunes, or damage to sea oat or dune vegetation, is prohibited. Any boat or watercraft which is placed or located at any time atop any primary or secondary dunes shall be fined $500 and may be subject to immediate impoundment.
(E) The Public Safety Department is hereby authorized to remove and tow away, or have removed and towed away, any boat or watercraft in violation of this section. In addition to the penalties provided fro in § 151.99, the owner shall pay all costs incurred by the city or its designee in the impoundment and storage of such boat or watercraft.
(Ord. 11-95, passed 11-21-95; Am. Ord. 30-06, 7-25-06; Am. Ord. 24-10, as amended, passed 10-26-10; Am. Ord. 23-15, passed 12-8-15) Penalty, see § 151.99