Town of Ashland, MA
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2023-05-09
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Division 2: Town Meeting Enactments
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 94 Boats: Regulation of Motor Boats, Etc.
- Act of Incorporation
- Ch Act Act of Incorporation
- Division 1: The Charter
- Ch CI Introduction
- Ch C Charter
- Division 2: Town Meeting Enactments
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Affordable Housing Trust
- Ch 4 Aging, Council on
- Ch 9 Community Preservation Committee
- Ch 11 Emergency Management
- Ch 15 Collective Bargaining
- Ch 23 Finance Committee
- Ch 24 Finance, Department of
- Ch 26 Finances
- Ch 29 Health, Board of
- Ch 31 Historical Commission
- Ch 35 Legal Affairs
- Ch 42 Capital Improvement Committee
- Ch 52 (Reserved)
- Ch 54 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 63 Town Meetings
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 77 Alarm Systems
- Ch 80 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 81 Marijuana
- Ch 84 Amusement Devices
- Ch 87 Animal Control
- Ch 94 Boats: Regulation of Motor Boats, Etc.
- § 94-1 Purpose.
- § 94-2 Motor Boats.
- § 94-3 Definitions.
- § 94-4 Penalty.
- Ch 98 Building Construction
- Ch 102 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 106 Businesses
- Ch 125 Demolition Delay Bylaw for Historically or Architecturally Significant Buildings
- Ch 126 Donation Collection Bins
- Ch 132 Electrical Standards
- Ch 137 Explosives
- Ch 141 Fees
- Ch 145 Firearms
- Ch 148 Fire Lanes
- Ch 150 Fire Prevention
- Ch 153 Forest
- Ch 157 Gas
- Ch 164 Handicapped Parking
- Ch 178 Licensing
- Ch 181 Loitering
- Ch 183 Plastic Bag Reduction
- Ch 187 Marijuana or Tetrahydrocannabinol, Public Consumption of
- Ch 204 Nuisance Noise
- Ch 215 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 218 Plumbing
- Ch 227 Retail Establishments
- Ch 230 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 235 Sewer Betterment Assessment
- Ch 242 Soil Removal
- Ch 245 Solid Waste
- Ch 247 Stormwater Management and Illicit Discharges and Connections
- Ch 249 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 252 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 256 Taxation
- Ch 260 Trapping
- Ch 265 Vehicles, Abandoned, Junked and Unregistered
- Ch 270 Water Use Restrictions
- Ch 280 Wetlands Protection
- Ch 281 Wild Mammals, Feeding or Baiting of
- Ch 281A (Reserved)
- Ch 281B Youth Athletic Activities
- Ch 282 Zoning
- Division 3: Select Board Regulations
- Ch 286 Regulation of Multi-Channel Service Providers
- Ch 293 Vehicles and Traffic
- Division 4: Board of Health
- Ch 295 Body Art
- Ch 296 Food Managers Certification
- Ch 297 Massage
- Ch 300 Septic Systems and Wells
- Ch 303 Sewage Disposal Systems
- Ch 304 Smoking
- Ch 305 Tobacco and Nicotine Delivery Product Sales
- Ch 306 Tobacco Sales Regulations
- Ch 307 Wastewater Treatment Plants
- Ch 312 Water Supplies, Private and Semipublic
- Ch 315 Fats, Oils and Grease
- Ch 316 Groundwater Use Restriction
- Division 5: Department of Public Works
- Ch 318 Cemeteries
- Ch 322 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 326 Sewers
- Ch 330 Street Excavations
- Ch 334 Water
- Ch 338 Sanitation
- Division 6: Miscellaneous Regulations
- Ch 339 Forest
- Ch 339A Planning Department and Zoning Board of Appeals Fees
- Ch 340 (Reserved)
- Ch 343 Stormwater Management
- Ch 344 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 348 Wetlands Protection Regulations
- Appendix
- Ch A351 Acceptance of General Laws and Special Acts
- Ch A352 Fees
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town of Ashland 5-14-1997 Annual Town
Meeting, Art. 33. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The purpose of this bylaw is to protect the welfare and safety
of those persons using Waushakum Pond.
(A)
All motor boats must (except when prevented by a narrow channel or
other boats or passing under bridges or rounding sharp bends) keep
one hundred and fifty (150) feet distance from anchored or moored
boats, piers, rafts, floats, a line of floats outlining swimming areas,
skin divers' flags, or the shore line. In all such cases, the
speed of such motor boats shall be reduced to headway speed, so as
to provide full visibility and control, and prevent the boat's
wash from being thrown into, or causing excessive rocking to other
boats, barges, aquaplanes, and other devices being towed by power.
The operator of the towing boat shall be responsible for compliance
therewith.
(B)
The use of powered craft generally described as a "JET SKI," "SURF
JET," "WET BIKE," or otherwise described as a "PERSONAL WATERCRAFT"
is prohibited except when used by law enforcement personnel in the
course of their duties.
means a small vessel which uses an inboard motor powering
a water jet pump as its primary source of motive power and which is
designed to be operated by persons sitting, standing, or kneeling
on the vessel. The term includes, but is not limited to a jet ski,
wet bike, or surf jet, so called.
(A)
Criminal disposition. Any violation of this chapter shall be punished
by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each
offense.
(B)
Non-criminal disposition. Violations of any part of
this chapter may be processed pursuant to Chapter 40, section 21D
of the general laws of the commonwealth. Fines for violations shall
be assessed as follows:
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First offense: fifty dollars ($50.00)
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Second and subsequent offenses: one hundred dollars ($100.00).
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Any person having police powers shall have authority to issue
notices of violations under this paragraph.
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