(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to rent, lease or hire within the city, a motor-driven floating device for use on or in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, or solicit the same within the city, unless:
(1) There is provided for each rental location a water channel perpendicular to the shoreline, not less than ten feet in width, and marked by at least one orange or red buoy not less than 60 inches in circumference and anchored 300 feet from the shoreline, and two orange or red cones or signs not less than 28 inches high erected at the water line;
(2) Privately-owned motor-driven floating devices operating from the water’s edge are required to depart the sandy beaches perpendicular to the shoreline at idle speed for a distance of not less than 300 feet before increasing speed.
(a) Returning to the beaches they are required to approach at idle speed from a point 300 feet offshore and perpendicular to the shoreline.
(b) Privately-owned motor-driven floating devices when departing the municipal canal system will depart at idle speed.
(c) Upon return idle speed will be assumed at the channel entrance.
(3) There shall be posted, within 50 feet landward of such channel a sign posting the established speed limit of idle speed for all watercraft operating within the channel and canal system.
(B) No person shall operate any rented, leased or hired motor-driven floating device within 300 feet of the edge of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, unless operating within a channel properly marked pursuant to division (A)(2) above.
(1998 Code, § 92.37) (Ord. 274, passed 5-11-1993) Penalty, see § 95.99