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(a) No person shall engage in skin or scuba diving in the restricted areas designated in Section 965.10, except in an emergency.
(b) No diving shall be done in any area of the harbor unless warning buoys or flags have been properly displayed.
(c) The operator of any vessel upon observing the "skin diving" buoy or flag shall reduce his speed to the minimum and approach no closer than 100 feet of such signal.
(1952 Code § 22-3-9; Ord. 129-62)
No person shall abandon any vessel at any time within the harbor.
(a) Any vessel or outboard motor found unattended in a sunken, beached or drifting condition shall be deemed abandoned by the owner. In the interest of the public safety, such vessel or outboard motor may be removed and impounded for safekeeping and disposal in accordance with the provisions in subsections (b) to (e) hereof.
(b) Such vessel or outboard motor may be impounded by any police officer or the Commissioner of Streets, Bridges and Harbor.
(c) The owner of such impounded vessel or outboard motor, if he be known or can be found, shall be notified and the owner shall be permitted to redeem such vessel or outboard motor by payment of a storage fee not to exceed one dollar ($1.00) per day plus the actual cost incurred in the removal of such vessel or outboard motor.
(d) When the owner of such vessel or outboard motor cannot be found the impounded vessel or outboard motor shall be held at the place of safekeeping for a period of time not less than ninety days nor longer than six months.
(e) Any vessel or outboard motor unclaimed by the owner at the expiration of the time set forth in subsection (d) shall be disposed of by destroying such vessel or outboard motor or by offering such vessel or outboard motor for sale at public auction.
(f) All money received by reason of sale at public auction shall be deposited in the General Revenue Fund of the City.
(ORC 1547.30)
(a) Organizations planning to hold regattas, races, marine parades or special events in the harbor shall submit detailed plans of such events to the Commissioner of Streets, Bridges and Harbor.
(b) The detailed plans shall include the following:
(1) Name and address of the organization and person representing the organization.
(2) Nature and purpose of the event.
(3) Information as to the general public interest.
(4) Estimated number and types of vessels participating.
(5) Estimated number and types of spectator vessels.
(6) A time schedule and description of the events.
(7) A section of a chart or scaled drawing showing the boundaries of the event, various water courses or areas to be utilized by participants, officials and spectator vessels.
(c) Detailed plans shall be submitted not less than fifteen days prior to the start of the event unless such event is of a nature as to involve limitations on the use of a portion of the harbor by other interested parties, in which case the plan shall be submitted not less than sixty days prior to the start of the proposed event.
(1952 Code § 22-3-11; Ord. 129-62)
(d) No person or organization shall conduct any regatta, race, marine parade or other special event upon the waters of the harbor without written permission of the Commissioner of Streets, Bridges and Harbor.
(e) If events are to be held in the downtown section of the Maumee River between the Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anthony Wayne Bridges, event requests must first be directed to the Riverfront Coordinator, Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, One Maritime Plaza, Toledo, Ohio 43604-1866, (419) 243-8251.
(f) The Riverfront Coordinator, Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, shall review the request and give a written recommendation to the Commissioner of Streets, Bridges and Harbor before the Commissioner issues the permit for the event.
(Ord. 416-89. Passed 5-9-89.)
In the event of a fire occurring on board any vessel in the port of Toledo, except vessels under way, or on the pier or wharf to which such vessel is moored, such vessel may sound five prolonged blasts on the whistle or siren as an alarm indicating such fire. Such signal may be repeated at intervals to attract attention and shall not be used for any other purpose in Toledo harbor. Such signal shall not be used as a substitute for, but may be used in addition to other means of reporting a fire. The words "prolonged blast" used in this section mean a blast of from four to six seconds duration.
(1952 Code § 22-3-12; Ord. 129-62)
No person shall blow, or cause to be blown, the whistle of any vessel while lying at any wharf or pier in the City, or when approaching or leaving any such wharf, pier, dock or landing, except when absolutely necessary as a signal of danger, and no horn or whistle shall be blown on any one of the navigable waters within the limits of the City except as prescribed by the laws and regulations of the United States and the City.
(1952 Code § 22-3-13; Ord. 129-62)
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