(A) Except when traveling at slow-no wake speed perpendicular to the shoreline, a person who operates a personal watercraft on one of the Great Lakes that is under the jurisdiction of the waters of the city shall maintain a distance of 200 feet from the shoreline.
(B) Except as provided in division (D) below, a person who operates a personal watercraft or a person who is being towed by a personal watercraft on a water sled, kite, surfboard, parachute, tube, water ski or similar equipment on the waters of the city shall maintain a distance of not less than 100 feet from a dock, raft or buoyed or occupied bathing or swimming area, a person in the water or on the water in a personal flotation device, or a vessel moored, anchored, drifting or sitting in dead water.
(C) A person who operates a personal watercraft or a person who is being towed by a personal watercraft on a water sled, kite, surfboard, parachute, tube, water ski or similar equipment on the waters of the city shall maintain a distance of not less that 200 feet from a submerged diver, vessel engaged in underwater diving activities or a flotation device displaying the international diving insignia.
(D) Division (B) above does not apply under either of the following conditions:
(1) The personal watercraft being operated or the person being towed is proceeding at a slow-no wake speed; or
(2) The personal watercraft being operated or the person being towed is in a navigable channel, canal, river or stream not otherwise posted.
(Prior Code, § 21.5-267) (Ord. 1072, passed 5-3-1999)