[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the Township of Long Beach 8-2-1974 as § 3-16 of the
1974 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
All persons operating any motor or other boats
in or upon any of the waters within the territorial limits of the
Township, shall so navigate the boats or vessels at a careful and
prudent speed and not greater or lesser than is reasonable and proper,
having due regard to other navigation, harbor and channel conditions
and any other conditions then existing in the immediate waters. No
person shall operate a boat or vessel at such a speed as to endanger
the life, limb or property of any person.
[Amended 7-1-2019 by Ord.
No. 19-16C]
A.
Every motor or other boat anchored or moored in the
waters within the territorial limits of the Township shall be moored
or anchored upon the waters and in such a manner as not to damage
any docks, piers, or wharves lawfully placed on the waters within
the territorial limits of the Township.
B.
No motor or other boat shall be anchored or moored
within 300 feet of any public beach, public park, public dock or pier,
or public street-based launch areas for boats, paddleboards, kayaks,
windsurfers, and related water-recreational activities.
C.
No person shall anchor, moor, or otherwise place or station any wreck
or abandoned boat of any kind or nature or any other movable or immovable
object of similar nature in or upon the waters within the territorial
limits of the Township.
D.
In the event that any motor or other boat is anchored, moored, or
otherwise abandoned in violation of this Chapter and the owner/operator
fails to move the boat outside of the prohibited zone after verbal
request and direction, the boat poses an obstruction to persons or
other boats, and/or the boat poses a threat to the public health,
welfare, and safety, the boat may be removed at the direction and
order of the Police Department. Removed boats shall be taken or towed
to a holding area or location as determined by the Police Department.
The owner/operator of the boat shall be responsible for and pay all
towing/removal charges and storage costs incurred by the Township
and/or any contractor or agent engaged to remove the boat. Those charges
and costs shall be paid by the owner and/or operator or other responsible
party prior to the boat being released. This power and authorization
to have the boat removed is in addition to the other penalties provided
by this chapter.
A.
All boats or vessels propelled in whole or in part
by gas, gasoline, naphtha or diesel fuel, burned or consumed in an
engine, while being operated, driven or propelled on any of the thoroughfares
or waterways lying within the territorial limits of the Township,
shall be equipped and provided with an efficient muffler, so constructed
and used as to muffle in a reasonable manner and to a reasonable extent
the noise of the explosion. All such boats or vessels exceeding five
horsepower while being operated shall be equipped and provided with
an efficient underwater exhaust or muffler.
B.
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any boat or
vessel or any occupant thereof to operate the cutout or opening of
any muffler upon the engine of any boat or vessel while standing or
being operated, driven or propelled on any of the thoroughfares or
waterways lying within the limits of the Township.
The following shall be prohibited upon the shorefront
and upon all waters within the Township:
A.
The dumping of garbage, food waste, offal or any other
waste or sewage materials into any of the waters in the Township.
B.
The deposit or discharge of oil, grease and other
refuse and waste matter in catch basins or in drains so that it will
enter catch basins in the Township.
C.
The discharge of sewage, garbage, motor oil and other
waste matter from any boat while anchored or moored in any harbor
within 100 feet of land or within 100 feet of any wharf, pier or dock
in the Township.
[Added 9-2-1977 by Ord. No. 77-23C]
Hereinafter it shall be unlawful to anchor,
tie up or permit any houseboat or other vessel occupied or used as
a dwelling place or living quarters for one or more persons, to remain
for more than 24 hours continuously within or upon the waters of the
Bay within the territorial limits of the Township of Long Beach.
The provisions of this chapter are subject to
the Navigation Laws of the State of New Jersey, and where any provisions
of this chapter are in conflict with the Navigation Laws of the State
of New Jersey, the laws of New Jersey shall control.
