Town of Bethany Beach, DE
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2024-01-16
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The Code
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Part III: General Legislation — Public Conduct and Safety
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Chapter 223 Beach
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Article VII Dangerous Conditions
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- The Code
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 9 Assessments
- Ch 21 Drug and Alcohol Policy
- Ch 26 Elections
- Ch 32 Indemnification of Officers and Employees
- Ch 40 Manager
- Ch 45 Ordinances, Adoption of
- Ch 51 Pension Program for Town Employees
- Ch 56 Personnel Policies
- Ch 60 Planning and Zoning Commission
- Ch 72 Town Bandstand and Plaza
- Part II: General Legislation — Commercial
- Ch 85 (Reserved)
- Ch 102 Business Licensing
- Ch 110 Circuses, Carnivals and Exhibitions
- Ch 116 Coin-Operated Amusement Devices
- Ch 123 Commercial Activities and Concessionaires
- Ch 144 Geothermal Closed-Loop Heat Exchange Well Systems
- Part III: General Legislation — Public Conduct and Safety
- Ch 212 Aircraft
- Ch 217 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 223 Beach
- Ch 223 Art VII Dangerous Conditions
- § 223-18 Determination of unsafe conditions.
- § 223-19 Closing of beach and/or boardwalk.
- § 223-20 Swimming during dangerous conditions.
- § 223-21 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 227 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 229 Boardwalk
- Ch 231 Boats, Personal Watercraft and Boat Trailers; Recreational Vehicles; Portable On-Demand Storage Units
- Ch 240 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 247 Firearms and Weapons
- Ch 251 Fires, Open and Recreational; Outdoor Cooking
- Ch 256 Fireworks
- Ch 260 Gambling and Games of Chance
- Ch 275 Noise
- Ch 272 Marijuana
- Ch 282 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 298 Skateboards, Roller Skates and In-Line Skates
- Ch 301 Smoking, Outdoor
- Ch 309 Trailers and Camping
- Ch 316 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Part IV: General Legislation — Government Access
- Ch 349 Public Access to Records
- Ch 364 Taxation
- Ch 370 Tort Claims
- Ch 378 Voting and Voter Registration
- Volume II
- Part V: General Legislation — Building and Zoning
- Ch 395 Building Construction
- Ch 410 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 425 Zoning
- Part VI: General Legislation — Land and Infrastructure
- Ch 440 Brush and Grass
- Ch 448 Erosion Control
- Ch 453 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 461 Houses, Numbering of
- Ch 475 Property Maintenance
- Ch 484 Solar Energy Systems
- Ch 486 Littering, Solid Waste, Recyclables and Yard Waste
- Ch 493 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 500 Swimming Pools and Spas
- Ch 507 Trees
- Ch 516 Water and Sewers
- Ch 525 Wireless Telecommunications Facilities
- Ch 530 Signs
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 10-19-1990 byOrd. No. 18 (Ch.
67, Art. VII, of the 1992 Code)]
The Town Manager or his or her designee is hereby
authorized and empowered to exercise his or her informed judgment
to determine and declare when conditions on the beach, boardwalk and/or
in the ocean waters east of the Town limits create or potentially
pose an unreasonable risk to the lives, personal health and/or safety
of persons on the beach and/or the boardwalk and/or in the ocean waters.
No person shall be permitted on the beach and/or
the boardwalk within the corporate limits of the Town of Bethany Beach
when the Town Manager or his or her designee has declared that conditions
exist so that such activities are dangerous to life and limb.
No person shall enter or swim in the ocean waters
east of the corporate limits of the Town of Bethany Beach at any time
that the Town Manager or his or her designee has declared that conditions
exist so that such activities are dangerous to life and limb.
