[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Port Washington as §§ 13.04 to 13.25 of the 1984 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person may operate a vessel at a speed in excess of slow-no-wake speed in the harbor, within the boundaries of the inner and outer harbor.
No person shall place or maintain lumber or other material over the dock line of any dock within a City harbor.
No person shall remove any stone, sand or earth from the beach or from within 300 feet of the high-water mark along or near the shore line of Lake Michigan within the City.
No person shall place or maintain any crushed stone, coal, gravel, sand, ashes, dirt or other loose material within three feet of the water's edge along the beaches of harbors in the City.
A.
The inner harbor shall include all that part of the harbor lying west of a line drawn north and south from the east limits of the navigation light on the stub of the old pier on the north side of the harbor channel south to the Electric Company docks on the south side of the harbor channel. The inner harbor shall include all slips as laid out and established heretofore.
B.
The outer harbor shall include all waters of Lake Michigan east of and outside of the line drawn from the navigation light on the stub of the old government pier as hereinbefore described and within the government breakwater.
No person shall dock a vessel at the Port Washington marina facilities or any other harbor facility without obtaining a permit therefor from the Harbormaster of the City of Port Washington or his duly authorized agent.
No person shall refuse to move his vessel when requested to do so by the Harbormaster when emergency conditions or safety precautions require the removal of said vessel to a different location.
There shall be no swimming, diving, skin diving or bathing within the waters of the Port Washington marina facility.
Cleaning of fish shall take place only at authorized fish cleaning stations.
Outdoor cooking on the piers of the Port Washington marina facility is prohibited.
No one shall cause clothing or laundry to be hung upon the piers or other municipal property at the Port Washington marina facility.
There shall be no smoking within 30 feet of the gas fill stations at the Port Washington marina facility.
Except as otherwise specifically provided, all provisions of the general body of law in §§ 30.77 and 30.79, Wis. Stats., as may be amended, created, or recreated, describing and defining municipal regulations of boating and water safety patrols, including penalties to be imposed, are hereby adopted and by reference made a part of this chapter as if fully set forth herein. Any act required or prohibited by any statute incorporated herein by reference is required or prohibited by this chapter.
Fishing within that area of the inner harbor known as the north slip lying on the north side of the harbor channel north of the Wisconsin Electric Company docks shall be regulated as follows:
A.
No person shall fish from the finger piers in the north harbor when boats are present and moored at those finger piers.
B.
Fishing shall be allowed from the north slip boardwalk commencing at the stairs leading from Main Street proceeding north and east along the boardwalk to a point on the north side of the boardwalk 20 feet from the end of the northernmost pier.
C.
All persons fishing on the boardwalk shall at all times conduct their fishing so that all fishing rods, tackle and other equipment remain in an area four feet from the slip side of said boardwalk. The area outside and to the land side of said area shall remain free of all fishing rods, tackle and other equipment for purposes of pedestrian access and use.
D.
Fishing shall be permitted in the channel leading into and out of the north slip save that boats will also navigate in the channel as well.
E.
No person shall climb on any railing on the boardwalk or attach equipment in such a way as to damage the same. Any damage to the boardwalk or any railing on the boardwalk shall be the responsibility of the person found to have caused such damage and, in addition to the fines provided herein, shall be required as additional restitution.
No person shall falsely make or alter, or duplicate, reproduce or copy by any means, a parking pass or permit issued by the Harbormaster or his designee authorizing parking within the parking lots or areas adjacent to the Port Washington marina facilities so that such pass or permit purports to have been made by another, or at another time, or with different provisions or by authority of one who did not give such authority, nor shall any person possess, or use or display as original and genuine, a parking pass or permit that has been so made, altered, duplicated, reproduced or copied. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall, for a first offense, be subject to a penalty consisting of a forfeiture in the sum of $250 together with any applicable fees, assessments and costs of prosecution, and, for a second and subsequent offenses, a forfeiture in the sum of $500 together with any applicable fees, assessments and costs of prosecution and the permanent revocation of the person's marina slip rental privileges at the Port Washington marina facility. In the case of default in payment of such forfeiture(s), fees, assessments and costs, such person shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not exceeding five days.