[Adopted by the Board of Selectmen effective 2-11-1972; amended 3-2-1992 (§ 77 of the prior compilation)]
No person shall operate a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle,
as defined in C.G.S. § 14-379, upon the frozen surface of
Highland Lake except between the hours of 12:00 noon and 10:00 p.m.
Sundays and between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. on Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Subject to the limitations of § 240-12 below, no persons shall operate a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle upon the frozen surface of Highland Lake at an unreasonable or imprudent speed for existing conditions.
No person shall operate a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle
upon the frozen surface of Highland Lake within 75 feet of the shore
at a rate of speed exceeding six miles per hour.
No person operating a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle shall
use as a landing point or staging point any public ice skating area
when such area is designated by markers or buoys.
No person shall operate a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle
on the frozen surface of Highland Lake in a negligent manner so as
to endanger any person or property.
No person shall operate a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle
upon the frozen surface of Highland Lake in such a manner that the
exhaust of the snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle makes an excessive
or unusual noise; nor shall any person operate a snowmobile or all-terrain
vehicle upon the frozen surface of Highland Lake without a functioning
muffler or with a muffler lacking interior baffle plates or other
effective muffler devices, gutted muffler or with a muffler cut out
of a straight exhaust.
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall
be fined not more than $100.
