Fishing in Lake Jacksboro and Lost Creek Reservoir shall be subject to the same rules and laws prescribed by state law in the methods of taking, baits allowed, seasons, limits, and in all other matters, unless specifically modified by action of the city council.
(1984 Code, sec. 15-17; Ordinance O-12-16 adopted 10/24/2016; Ordinance O-28-2021 adopted 12/13/2021; 1997 Code, sec. 95.35)
Swimming and jumping/diving is prohibited in Lake Jacksboro and Lost Creek Reservoir in the following areas. Prohibited areas will be marked with appropriate signs.
(1) 
Boat ramps.
(2) 
Directly from either dam (exiting and entering the water from the dam is prohibited).
(3) 
Gate control towers.
(4) 
Jumping or diving is exclusively forbidden off the dock floor, railings and roof of any docks on Lake Jacksboro and Lost Creek Reservoir.
(1984 Code, sec. 15-18; Ordinance O-12-16 adopted 10/24/2016; Ordinance O-28-2021 adopted 12/13/2021; 1997 Code, sec. 95.36; Ordinance O-17-2025 adopted 9/8/2025)
It shall be unlawful for any person to go about, on or upon the gate control tower situated on Lake Jacksboro and Lost Creek Reservoir.
(1984 Code, sec. 14-9; Ordinance 107 adopted 5/2/1950; Ordinance O-12-16 adopted 10/24/2016; Ordinance O-28-2021 adopted 12/13/2021; 1997 Code, sec. 95.37)
It shall be unlawful for any person to wash automobiles, trucks, or any other motor vehicle on the causeway from the water at Lake Jacksboro, or to use the water from the lake to wash vehicles by means of carrying water from the lake and washing vehicles in the public road, allowing the waste water to drain back into the lake.
(1984 Code, sec. 14-10; Ordinance 107A adopted 5/13/1950; Ordinance O-12-16 adopted 10/24/2016; Ordinance O-28-2021 adopted 12/13/2021; 1997 Code, sec. 95.38)
(a) 
General prohibition.
It is an offense for any person to walk, stand, fish, travel by foot or operate a motor vehicle over the spillway between Lake Jacksboro and Lost Creek Reservoir during periods of high waters when barricades are in place or signs have been posted advising that the spillway is closed. Periods of high waters include those periods when water is flowing across the spillway.
(b) 
Compliance.
The operator of a motor vehicle or pedestrian shall comply with all applicable traffic-control devices, barricades, gates, instructions, signals, warnings, or markings of a warning sign, being a signal, marking or device placed on a barricade, during periods of high water, to warn or regulate motor vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
(c) 
Passing around barricade.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to walk, run, drive or otherwise pass, by any means, around a barricade, meaning an obstruction placed in, on, before or across the spillway, by the city, to prevent the passage of persons, pedestrians or motor vehicles over the spillway.
(d) 
Failure to comply with barricade or warning sign.
It shall be unlawful for any person, as a pedestrian, or as an operator of a motor vehicle, to fail to comply with all applicable traffic-control devices, barricades, warnings, signs, signals, markings, or gates placed to prohibit, direct or deter persons, pedestrians or vehicular traffic.
(e) 
Defenses.
It shall be a defense to the offenses listed herein if the person was following the directions of a peace officer or is a person whose duties require the person to go beyond or around a barricade.
(f) 
Moving or altering barricade or warning sign.
It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to move, destroy, alter, a barricade, traffic-control device, gate, instruction, signal, warning or marking of a warning sign placed to prevent the passage of persons, pedestrians, or motor vehicles over the spillway.
(g) 
Penalty.
Any person violating any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not to exceed $500.00. Proof and evidence of a culpable mental state are not required for proof of an offense stated herein.
(Ordinance O-02-07 adopted 5/8/2007; Ordinance O-12-16 adopted 10/24/2016; Ordinance O-28-2021 adopted 12/13/2021; 1997 Code, sec. 95.39)