No person shall enter or leave the ponds or lakes in Carver in which bathing is permitted except at beaches where the Town owns the land, or at such other places as the Select Board may specially designate, except abutters, their guests and servants on their own respective beaches.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Carver as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted as Ch. 6, § 6.6, of the 2015 Compilation]
No person shall in or on the lakes and ponds in Carver, or upon any land bordering thereon annoy another person or utter any profane, threatening, abusive or indecent language, or loud outcry, or do any obscene or indecent act or commit a nuisance.
No person shall throw, drop, place or deposit in the water or on any beach any waste papers, glass rubbish, refuse or garbage.
No person shall bathe in the lakes and ponds in Carver in which bathing is permitted unless properly attired.
Fishing in the lakes and ponds of Carver is subject to the existing rules and regulations of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts pertaining to fishing, and rules and regulations of any body of water used for domestic water supply.
Rowboats, canoes and sailing boats will have the right-of-way at all times in any part of the lakes.
A.
No person shall run, drive or operate any boat, canoe or any type of water vehicle propelled by steam, naphtha, gasoline, electricity or any motor or engine upon the lakes or ponds within the Town of Carver:
(1)
In a reckless, careless, or negligent manner as that the lives and safety of the public might be endangered.
(2)
At a speed exceeding 10 miles per hour.
(3)
Within 50 yards of any bathing beach or diving raft.
(4)
Within 50 feet of any rowboat, sailboat, or canoe, except where docking or where the width of the waterway prevents such distance, in which event speed shall be reduced accordingly.
B.
The Select Board may prohibit the use of any boat, canoe or any type of water vehicle propelled by steam, naphtha, gasoline, electricity or any motor or engine upon any or all of the lakes and ponds within the Town of Carver for such period as is determined by the Select Board for the health and sanitation of those using the lakes and ponds, and the Select Board of the Town of Carver shall have the exclusive authority and absolute discretion to determine the reasons for which such a prohibition will be invoked and enforced.
The above rules and regulations are to be enforced by an authorized police official of the Town of Carver and the violation of any rule or regulation established under this act shall be punished by fine of not more than $20.
The above regulations do not apply to use of lakes by boats involved in rescue operations by aircraft in emergencies or by police in the course of their duties.
To decrease the speed limit for motorboats on all bodies of water within the Town of Carver from 45 mph to 35 mph.
A.
No motor vehicle, as defined by MGL c. 90, § 1, shall be driven, towed, or pushed upon a frozen surface of any pond, lake, river, brook, stream or other permanent or semipermanent body of water to which the public has a right of access and which is situated within the boundary lines of the Town of Carver. Any owner or operator of such vehicle refusing to remove such vehicle from such frozen surface after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be subject to immediate arrest without warrant and said vehicle shall be towed there from at the expense of the owner.
B.
Any violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $200.
C.
This section shall not apply to such vehicle as shall be designated by the Select Board, Police Chief, Fire Chief, or Commissioner of Public Works as emergency vehicles when operated by duly authorized personnel in the course of an official emergency operation. This section shall not apply to motorized equipment used for the maintenance and harvest of the cranberry industry.