Town of Fairhaven, MA
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2022-06-18
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Division 2: Board of Selectmen
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Chapter 208 Houseboats
- Division 1: Bylaws
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Finances
- Ch 3 Agricultural Commission
- Ch 6 Community Preservation Committee
- Ch 8 Conservation Commission
- Ch 12 Constables
- Ch 16 Council on Aging
- Ch 22 Data Processing Center
- Ch 28 (Reserved)
- Ch 33 Finance Committee
- Ch 37 Finance, Department of
- Ch 40 Capital Planning Committee
- Ch 50 Meetings
- Ch 56 Officers and Employees
- Ch 61 Personnel
- Ch 65 Planning Board
- Ch 73 Tax Abatement Agreements
- Ch 74 Tax Titles
- Ch 76 Tree Warden
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 82 Alarms
- Ch 83 Alcoholic Beverages and Drugs
- Ch 87 Animals
- Ch 93 Building Construction
- Ch 97 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 103 Demolition Delay
- Ch 106 Entertainment
- Ch 110 Excavations and Wells
- Ch 113 Explosives and Inflammable Materials
- Ch 119 Fees
- Ch 122 Fire Prevention and Protection
- Ch 125 Garages, Service Stations and Unregistered Motor Vehicles
- Ch 132 Harbor Pollution Control
- Ch 141 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 145 Waterways
- Ch 150 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 155 Right to Farm
- Ch 158 Sewers
- Ch 164 Solid Waste
- Ch 169 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 171 Stretch Energy Code
- Ch 176 Underground Storage Tanks
- Ch 177 (Reserved)
- Ch 182 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 187 Water
- Ch 190 Short-Term Rentals
- Ch 192 Wetlands
- Ch 194 Stormwater Management
- Ch 198 Zoning
- Division 2: Board of Selectmen
- Ch 204 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 206 Animals
- Ch 207 Council on Aging
- Ch 208 Houseboats
- § 208-1 Mooring prohibited.
- § 208-2 Disposal of human waste.
- § 208-3 Description and limitations of vessels.
- § 208-4 Violations and penalties.
- § 208-5 Applicability.
- Ch 212 Marine Resources Committee
- Ch 218 Shellfish Regulations
- Ch 220 Special Municipal Employees
- Ch 225 Union Wharf
- Division 3: Planning Board
- Ch 306 Fees
- Ch 316 Procedural Rules
- Ch 322 Subdivision of Land
- Division 4: Board of Health
- Ch 401 General Provisions
- Ch 405 Animals
- Ch 412 Dairy Products
- Ch 416 Disease Control
- Ch 422 Fees
- Ch 426 Food Service Establishments
- Ch 432 Individual Sewage Disposal Systems
- Ch 437 Landfill
- Ch 442 Massage Parlors and Baths
- Ch 448 Nuisances
- Ch 454 Places of Assembly
- Ch 461 Rodents
- Ch 466 Sanitation
- Ch 471 Solid Waste
- Ch 475 Swimming Pools
- Ch 479 Tobacco Control
- Ch 483 Water
- Ch 487 Wells
- Ch 491 West Island Sewer Enterprise Zone
- Division 5: Zoning Board of Appeals
- Ch 493 Comprehensive Permits, Rules and Regulations Governing
- Division 6: Conservation Commission
- Ch 495 Wetlands Rules and Regulations
- Appendix
- Ch A501 Acceptances of General Laws
- Ch A502 Special Acts
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Selectmen of the Town of
Fairhaven 4-29-2013. Amendments
noted where applicable.
The Town of Fairhaven, MA, through the office of the Harbormaster
and the duly appointed agents of the Town of Fairhaven acting as the
Harbormaster and/or the Assistant Harbormaster, prohibit the mooring
of any vessel that is, after the determination of the Harbormaster,
a houseboat to be placed on a mooring within the waters of Fairhaven,
MA.
Houseboats, as determined by the Harbormaster as described above,
are not permitted to be at a mooring in the Town of Fairhaven. The
disposal of human waste is not allowed within the waters of Fairhaven.
Porta potties, and/or any other device onboard are not considered
adequate to properly hold and allow for proper disposal of human waste.
The Town does not have the ability or system that can accurately track
disposal of human waste brought ashore for proper disposal.
Vessels considered to be houseboats are vessels that, as determined
by the Harbormaster, are of the design that indicates they are not
suitable to be used to navigate the seas most likely encountered in
the area waters due to weather conditions. Because of this, they are
at a mooring, and the design of such allows for humans to live or
sleep aboard. As opposed to recreational vessels that can traverse
the local seas in normal weather conditions and have adequate pump-out
systems for human waste, houseboats at moorings cannot be pumped out
by the Town of Fairhaven's CVA boats while at moorings per the
grant the Town operates under. This presents the problem of human
waste disposal.
Vessels that are determined to be houseboats by the Harbormaster
and moor in violation of this regulation are subject to the following:
After reasonable attempts to contact the owner by telephone or U.S.
Mail over a three-day period, it may be removed at the direction of
the Harbormaster at the cost of the owner. Cost will include all towing
and storage charges that may be incurred to do so. All charges are
payable to the tow company which will hold the vessel until payments
are made.
This regulation is applicable to both privately and commercially
owned moorings.
