[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Stanford 9-11-1955. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any type of boat or aircraft or any type of vessel propelled
in any manner upon water, other than by hand, including but not limited
to propulsion by gasoline, steam or sail.
No boats shall be operated within 200 feet of
the shoreline of any water or waterways situated within the Town of
Stanford at a greater rate of speed than five miles per hour, nor
beyond a distance of 200 feet and up to a distance of 1,500 feet from
the shoreline at a greater rate of speed than 15 miles per hour.
Every boat or aircraft propelled by gasoline,
sail, steam or any other motor power, operated or driven upon any
waters or waterways in said Town within 1,500 feet of the shoreline
shall be provided and equipped with a sound muffler and an underwater
exhaust discharge at least four inches under the water at all times
when said mechanism is in operation, or the sound of the exhaust from
the motor shall otherwise be effectively muffled.
Every person operating a boat or aircraft propelled
by gasoline, steam, sail or any other motor power upon any waters
or waterways in said Town within 1,500 feet of the shoreline shall
at all times operate the same in a careful and prudent manner and
in such manner and at such rate of speed as not to endanger the property
of another or the life or limb of any person.
No boat or aircraft propelled by gasoline, steam,
sail or any other motor power within 1,500 feet of the shoreline upon
any waters or waterways in said Town shall be operated in a reckless
manner. "Reckless operation" shall include but not be limited to operating
such boat in a manner which unnecessarily interferes with the free
and proper use of the said waters or waterways in said Town or unnecessarily
endangers other craft thereon or the life or limb of any person.
All boats, as defined in this chapter and otherwise,
shall, while being operated during the hours between sunset and sunrise,
carry lights on the bow and stern so as to be clearly visible both
fore and aft to other boats.
No person shall hereafter operate a boat, as
defined by this chapter, upon the waters or waterways in the Town
of Stanford until said boat has been duly registered with the Town
Clerk of the Town of Stanford. Such registration shall continue until
a change of ownership of said boat, at which time said boat shall
be reregistered by the new owner thereof with the said Town Clerk.
The fee for such registration or reregistration to be charged by the
said Town Clerk shall be the sum of $1. At the time of registration,
each said boat shall be assigned a number by the said Town Clerk,
which shall be fixed on both sides of the hull of the boat at the
bow not more than three feet above the waterline, said number or numbers
to be painted and at all times to be clearly visible and at least
three inches in height.
[Amended 9-13-1984 as L.L. No. 1984]
Any person committing an offense against the
provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a violation under the
Penal Law and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable by a fine
of not more than $250 or by imprisonment for not more than 15 days,
or both.
