(a) Any person who rides or attempts to ride upon one or more water skis, surfboard or similar device and any person who operates a vessel towing such person riding or attempting to ride on one or more water skis, surfboard or similar device shall confine such activity to the water area within a designated ski zone.
Water skiing is prohibited in the following designated areas of the harbor:
(1) Ottawa River from the Ohio/Michigan line to the Summit Street Bridge;
(2) The entire Bay View Park Marina area;
(3) The entire Cullen Park lagoon area;
(4) The Maumee River from a point between Corbutt Island and the old waterworks crib to a point between the south tip of Delaware Island and the west shore of the Maumee River;
(5) The Maumee River adjacent to downtown Toledo which limits are defined as the Toledo Edison Overhead Cable at mile 4.20 located approximately 2,000 feet downstream of the Martin Luther King Bridge to the Anthony Wayne Bridge at mile 5.16.
(Ord. 416-89. Passed 5-9-89.)
(b) Any person who operates a vessel towing any person riding or attempting to ride upon one or more water skis, surfboard, or similar device on the waters of the harbor shall have present in such vessel a person other than the operator, twelve years of age or older, who shall at all times observe the progress of the person being towed and the operator of the towing vessel shall at all times observe the traffic pattern toward which the vessel is approaching.
(c) No person shall, within the harbor, ride or attempt to ride upon water skis, surfboard, or similar device, or use or operate any vessel to tow any person thereon during the period of the day between sunset and sunrise, except upon special permit issued by the Commissioner of Streets, Bridges and Harbor.
(d) No person who operates a vessel to tow other persons riding upon water skis, surfboard or similar device shall tow more than two such persons simultaneously upon water skis, surfboard, or similar device, or any combination thereof, except upon special permit issued by the Commissioner of Streets, Bridges and Harbor.
(1952 Code § 22-3-8)
(e) No person shall ride or attempt to ride upon one or more water skis, surfboard or similar device without wearing an adequate and effective Coast Guard approved Type One, Type Two or Type Three personal flotation device, in good and serviceable condition and of appropriate size, except upon special permit issued by the Commissioner of Streets, Bridges and Harbor. Any operator of a vessel towing any person on water skis, surfboard or similar device who is not wearing a personal flotation device described herein shall be deemed in violation of this section.
(Ord. 416-89. Passed 5-9-89.)
(f) No person shall install or maintain any structure or inclined platform known as water ski jump on the waters of the harbor and no person shall use such structure for the purpose of water ski jumping, except upon special permit of the Commissioner of Streets, Bridges and Harbor.
(1952 Code § 22-3-8)