381.08 BOAT OPERATION.

   (a)    No person under twelve years of age shall operate any boat upon the waters of the City unless such person is under the direct visual and audible supervision, during such operation, of a parent, guardian or other person over the age of sixteen years. No supervising parent, guardian or other person over sixteen years of age shall permit any person under twelve years of age operating a boat upon the waters of the State to violate any section of this chapter or Ohio R.C. Chapter 1547.
(ORC 1547.06)

   (b)    No person shall operate a boat within or through a designated bathing area or within or through any area that has been buoyed off or designated as an area in which boats are prohibited.
(ORC 1547.08)

   (c)    No person shall moor or anchor any boat in a designated speed zone or water ski zone. No person, unless in distress and no other boat or vessel is endangered thereby, shall moor to, anchor to, or tie up to any marker, aid, buoy, light or other aid to navigation.

(ORC 1547.09)

   (d)    No operator of any boat carrying passengers for hire shall permit the passengers to come aboard before the engine of such boat has been run for a minimum of two minutes.

(ORC 1547.23)

   (e)    No person shall operate or permit to be operated any boat under eighteen feet in length while there is present in such boat any person under ten years of age, not wearing a Coast Guard approved type one, two or three personal flotation device in good and serviceable condition of appropriate size securely attached to the person under ten years of age.

(ORC 1547.24)

   (f)    No occupant of any boat under way on the waters of this City shall sit, stand or walk upon any portion of the boat not specifically designed for such movement, except when immediately necessary for the safe and reasonable navigation or operation of such boat.

   No operator of a boat under way on the waters in this City shall allow any occupant of the boat to sit, stand or walk on any portion of the boat not specifically designed for that use except when immediately necessary for the safe and reasonable navigation or operation of the boat.

(ORC 1547.22)

   (g)    Every boat not equipped with propulsion machinery except a sailboat, must have a towboat capable of towing such boat within hail at all times.

(Ord. 47-1964. Passed 4-27-64.)