ADULT SUPERVISION: | The presence of a responsible person age eighteen (18) years or over on or in a vessel. |
BOARD: | The Board of County Commissioners of Kootenai County, Idaho. |
BOAT CAMPING: | The act of sleeping overnight in or on a vessel attached or moored to a public dock, pier, mooring buoy or other designated structure. |
CAMP OR CAMPING: | The act of physically placing any type of personal belonging on or above the ground, or on or above a concrete slab, pier, dock, picnic table, bench or other structure, in order for one or more persons to rest, nap or sleep overnight. |
COMMERCIAL USE: | Use of any County facility in connection with any activity or enterprise conducted for profit. |
DIRECTOR: | The Director of the Kootenai County Parks and Waterways Department, or his or her designee. |
EXCESSIVE WAKE: | The wave resulting from operating a vessel: (1) at the speed at which boats create the most wake, moving quickly and displacing the most water, i.e. plowing; (2) in an artificially bow high manner to increase or enhance a wake, including wake enhancement by use of ballast, mechanical hydrofoils, uneven loading; or (3) to cause water to lap over a dock, pier, or other lawfully permitted encroachment. |
FACILITY: | Any park, trail, boat launch facility, or other waterways facility owned, operated, managed or maintained by Kootenai County. |
FIREARM: | Any weapon from which a shot, projectile or other object which may be discharged by force or combustion, explosion, gas or mechanical means. This definition shall include, but not be limited to, pistols, rifles, shotguns, BB guns, pellet guns, paintball guns, slingshots, crossbows, bow and arrows or a spear gun. |
FIREPLACE AREA: | A portion of a facility which is constructed of concrete, rock or metal and which is officially designated by the county at the location for having fires at the facility. |
MOORAGE OR MOORING: | Parking a vessel in the water. |
MOTOR DRIVEN WATERCRAFT: | Any vessel which is propelled by any type of motor or machinery. |
NIGHT: | From one hour after sunset until one hour before sunrise. |
OVERNIGHT: | From one hour after sunset until one hour before sunrise. |
PARK OR PARKING: | When used as a verb, the act of leaving a vehicle, trailer or vessel in a certain place, whether on land or water. When used as a noun, the term "park" shall mean any land owned, managed or controlled by the county, whether improved or unimproved, which is provided for public recreation and is not primarily used for launching of vessels or for parking. |
PERSONAL WATERCRAFT: | A vessel less than twelve feet (12') in length which uses an outboard or 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. |
PICNICKING: | The physical act of setting up and/or using personal belongings that provide seating, an eating surface, food preparation, cooking, shade or the dispensing or storage of food and beverages. |
POSTED AREA: | An area which is a portion of the waters of the county and which either the board or the director has caused to be marked with regulatory markers in compliance with Idaho Code section 67-7031 and IDAPA 26.66.21 to regulate the actions of vessels and persons in such marked portions of the waters. |
POWER LOADING: | The loading or unloading of a vessel from or to its trailer by use of the vessel's propulsion system to facilitate the movement of the vessel onto or off the trailer. |
PRIVATE MOORAGE: | The mooring of a vessel anywhere within one or more county facilities for more than forty eight (48) consecutive hours in a seventy two (72) hour period wherever such moorage is prohibited. This definition shall not include mooring of a vessel for a longer period as authorized by a duly issued overnight moorage permit. |
PUBLIC WATERS: | Any river, lake, or other body of water within Kootenai County, Idaho, other than those which are entirely privately owned, regardless of navigability. |
SHERIFF: | The sheriff of Kootenai County, Idaho, or his or her designee. |
SHORELINE: | The line of demarcation between water and land at the time in question without regard to property lines or high or low water lines or marks. |
SPECIAL USE: | Any use of a facility, whether commercial or noncommercial in nature, which may be reasonably expected to have one hundred (100) or more people at any given time. |
VESSEL: | Every description of watercraft, including a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, but does not include float houses, 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, single inner tubes and beach and water toys. |
WAKE: | The visible track of turbulence created by the movement of a vessel through the water. |
WATERWAYS: | Any river, lake, or other body of water within Kootenai County, Idaho. (Ord. 480, 2-10-2015; amd. Ord. 568, 7-13-2021; Ord. 571, 10-19-2021) |