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It shall be unlawful for a person responsible for same to place, erect, build, or install within the Marina del Rey entrance channel or on contiguous jetties any light fixtures or open flame fires in such manner as to constitute a hazard to operators of vessels navigating at night.
This section shall not apply to any usual indoor or outdoor lighting fixtures installed upon the private properties within the adjacent Venice Waterways Project.
A person shall not anchor nor moor any vessel within the entrance channel nor secure it to any jetty, breakwater, buoy, or other thing except in any emergency, in which case such person shall forthwith report the emergency to the Harbor Master and thereafter act in accordance with the Harbor Master’s instructions. The owner of any vessel anchored or moored for emergency reasons shall be responsible for causing such vessel to be tied, secured, or anchored with proper care and in such manner as may be required to not unnecessarily obstruct the passage of other vessels and to prevent breakaway and resulting damage.
If any unattended vessel shall be found to be anchored or moored within the entrance channel, the Director may assume custody of such vessel and cause it to be removed or held or placed in storage. The Director or the Director’s deputies shall not be held liable for any damage to such vessel whether such damage occurs before or after the Director or Director’s deputies assumes custody.
If said vessel is not claimed by the owner thereof, the Director may deal with such vessel in the manner as provided in the Civil Code as it now reads or as it may hereafter be amended.
Charges imposed by County for recovery and/or movement of vessels shall be in accordance with the “Schedule of Charges for Services Rendered and Supplies Furnished by the Harbor Patrol” as approved by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles on November 30, 1965, or as subsequently amended, and whenever a vessel is impounded or held for safekeeping, there shall be in addition a charge for storage at the rate of five dollars ($5.00) per day.
(a) Whenever a vessel is sunk, accidentally or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the owner of such vessel to mark it immediately by a buoy or beacon by day and by a lantern or light by night and to maintain such markings until the sunken vessel or obstruction is removed, and the neglect or failure of such owner to do so shall be unlawful. The owner of such sunken vessel shall immediately commence removal of said vessel and prosecute the removal diligently to completion.
(b) Whenever the navigation of any waters within the entrance channel shall be obstructed or endangered by any sunken vessel or other obstruction the vessel or obstruction shall be subject to removal, sale, or other disposition by the Director and may be treated as found property and subject to the provisions of the Civil Code. The owner or owners of such vessel or property causing such obstruction or damage shall be liable to the County for all costs incident to said removal and disposition, and shall further be liable to any person who may be damaged as a proximate cause of said sunken vessel or other obstruction. Neither the County nor the City of Los Angeles, their employees, agents or officers, shall be liable for damages of any nature whatsoever arising out of or in any way connected with the removal, sale, or disposition of such sunken vessel or other property.
(c) Any vessel that may enter the entrance channel in a disabled condition, or any vessel within said channel, which may for any reason be rendered disabled, shall immediately become subject to the orders and directions of the Director and it shall be unlawful for any person to fail or refuse to comply with the Director’s orders or directions with regard to the disposition of such vessel.
(a) The operator of any vessel involved in a collision with any other vessel or with any other object shall immediately notify the owner of the struck vessel of the name and address of the operator and/or owner of the striking vessel, and shall further immediately report the incident and furnish the same information to the Harbor Master. Failure to render both said notice and said report shall be a violation of this article.
(b) The rendering of the notice and report aforementioned in this section shall not exonerate any boat operator or owner from rendering accident reports required by the California Harbors and Navigation Code or any other reports required by state law.
No person shall solicit, sell, hawk, or peddle any goods, wares, or merchandise of any sort whatsoever within the entrance channel; nor shall any person distribute circulars, handbills or advertising matter within the entrance channel, nor erect any signs, posters, or other advertising media upon any breakwater, structure, sign, or marker within said entrance channel.
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