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No person shall anchor a watercraft for fishing, or anchor or stop or allow a watercraft to drift for any purpose other than an emergency in any City waters in such a position as to obstruct a passageway or channel ordinarily used by other watercraft, which also includes entrances and channels into yacht club and marina harbors. No person shall anchor or allow a watercraft to drift or obstruct marine traffic in the Black River or Beaver Creek, or at the mouth of the Black River or Beaver Creek, or in the channel entrance to the Lorain Harbor or in the shipping channel where such anchoring or drifting would hinder commercial and other watercraft from safe and proper use of such channels. No person shall moor or anchor any watercraft in a designated speed zone or water ski zone.
(Ord. 98-81. Passed 6-15-81.)
No person shall moor or tie a watercraft to any public pier, public wharf or public dock when such pier, wharf or dock has been posted by signs erected by Federal, State or City officials assigned to the Department of Port Control, prohibiting such mooring. No person shall moor or tie to any such pier, dock or wharf in excess of a time limit stipulated be such signs.
(Ord. 98-81. Passed 6-15-81.)
(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.)
(a) No person shall let, loan or rent, with or without hire, any watercraft to any person who is under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, or who, by reason of having been drinking any alcohol or using drugs, may be incompetent to take charge of the management of a watercraft
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 98-81. Passed 6-15-81.)
No person shall let, loan or rent with or without hire, any watercraft to any person under sixteen years of age. However, any person may let, loan or rent a watercraft to persons under sixteen years of age, when accompanied in the use of such watercraft by a competent person over sixteen to take charge of and manage the same. This section does not apply to regular training programs conducted by competent instructors, Sea Scout groups or persons under the jurisdiction of their parents or guardians.
(Ord. 98-81. Passed 6-15-81.)
(a) No owner of any watercraft or any person having such in charge or in control shall authorize or knowingly permit the same to be operated by any person who by reason of physical or mental disability is incapable of operating such watercraft under the prevailing circumstances.
(b) No person shall operate any watercraft when mentally or physically incapacitated so as to prevent operation in a safe and competent manner.
(Ord. 98-81. Passed 6-15-81.)
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