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(a) No person shall without lawful authority climb on, swim and hang on, dive off, tie a watercraft to or attempt to tie a watercraft to, injure, sink, disconnect from its anchor, damage, deface or interfere with any buoy or other aid to navigation which is placed, anchored or erected by the United States Coast Guard, State or City.
(b) No person shall knowingly damage, remove or tamper with any signal, buoy or other aid to navigation.
(c) No person, unless in distress and no other watercraft or vessel is endangered thereby, shall moor to, anchor to or tie up to any marker, aid, buoy, light or other aid to navigation.
(d) No person shall purposely sever the mooring lines, set adrift, injure or damage in any manner any watercraft which is moored, docked, buoyed or tied up on the Waters of Lorain.
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 98-81. Passed 6-15-81.)
In any hearing of the Municipal Court on a charge of unlawful anchoring, mooring or tying of watercraft, testimony that a watercraft bearing a certain number award was found to be unlawfully anchored, moored or tied in violation of any of the provisions of this Navigation and Watercraft Control Code, and further testimony that the records of the Administrator of the State Division of Watercraft show that such number award was issued to the defendant, shall be prima-facie evidence that the watercraft which was so anchored, moored or tied was operated by the defendant at the time of the violation. A certified copy showing such fact of registration from the State Division of Watercraft shall be proof of such ownership.
(Ord. 98-81. Passed 6-15-81.)
No person shall use a public launching ramp in the City for any other purpose than to launch a watercraft and shall do so as expeditiously as possible without prejudice to other person or persons waiting to use such ramp. No person shall use a ramp for the purpose of repairing a watercraft or its engine or refuse to move a watercraft or trailer when ordered by a police officer or person designated to supervise the proper use of such public launching ramps.
(Ord. 98-81. Passed 6-15-81.)
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