The Harbor Master of the City of Tacoma or his designated assistants, or the Chief of Police of the City of Tacoma or his designated assistants, or such other officers or employees as may be designated by the City Manager, are authorized to enforce the provisions of this title, and such officers and employees as designated by the City Manager shall have full power to arrest any person or persons who violate any of the provisions of this chapter. Such designated officers and employees shall have authority to enter upon and inspect any vessel or watercraft in the Tacoma Harbor, and are charged with enforcement of the provisions of this title, except as the enforcement thereof is otherwise specified in this title. It shall be the duty of such designated officers or employees to make complaint for any violation of the same or any part hereof in the name of the City; provided that this provision shall not operate to preclude the making of such complaint by any other person legally authorized so to do.
(Ord. 22868 § 1, 1983-06-07)
Whenever any person is arrested for any violation of this title, the arresting officer may serve upon him or her a citation and notice to appear in court. The arrested person, in order to secure release and when permitted by the arresting officer, must give his written promise to appear in court as required by the citation and notice by signing in the appropriate place on the written citation and notice served by the arresting officer. Upon the arrested person’s failing or refusing to sign such written promise, he or she may be taken into the custody of such arresting officer and so remain, or be placed in confinement.
(Ord. 22868 § 1, 1983-06-07)
It is unlawful for any person to fail, refuse, and/or neglect to comply with any lawful order or direction of a City of Tacoma public officer who is, at the time, discharging the duty of the enforcement of any provision of this title. Violation of this section is a misdemeanor.
(Ord. 22868 § 1, 1983-06-07; Ord. 27361 § 5, 2005-05-24)
A. 
It is unlawful for any person, while operating or in charge of any vessel or watercraft, who is arrested for any violation of this title, to refuse, when requested by an authorized public officer, to give his or her name and address and the name and address of the owner of the vessel or watercraft, or for such person to give a false name and address, and it shall likewise be unlawful for any person to refuse or neglect to stop when any authorized public officer so signals, or to refuse, upon demand of such authorized public officer, to permit the examination of any equipment of the vessel or watercraft. Violation of this subsection is a misdemeanor.
B. 
The operation of a vessel or watercraft evincing an attempt to outrun, or which outruns, a vessel or watercraft which is pursuing the fleeing vessel or watercraft with audible and visual signs (such as sirens and blue flashing lights) operating and which is operated by any public officer authorized to enforce the provisions of this title, shall be unlawful, and, in addition to being a violation of this subsection, shall be prima facie evidence of reckless operation by the operator thereof. Violation of this subsection is a gross misdemeanor.
(Ord. 22868 § 1, 1983-06-07; Ord. 27361 § 5, 2005-05-24)
Every person who commits, attempts to commit, conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of any act declared by this title to be prohibited, or in the omission of an act to be performed by this title, whether individually or in connection with one or more other persons, or as a principal, agent, or accessory, is guilty of such offense, and every person who falsely, fraudulently, or willfully induces, causes, coerces, requires, permits, or directs others to violate any provisions of this title is likewise guilty of such offense.
(Ord. 22868 § 1, 1983-06-07)
Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, including, but not limited to, penalties set forth in statutes adopted herein, violation of or failure to comply with any provision of this title or any lawful order or direction of the Harbor Master, the Chief of Police, or any person or officer charged with the enforcement hereof, shall constitute a misdemeanor.
(Ord. 22868 § 1, 1983-06-07; Ord. 27361 § 5, 2005-05-24)
Should any part of this title be adjudged invalid for any reason, such adjudication shall not affect the validity of this title as a whole or any part thereof.
(Ord. 27361 § 5, 2005-05-24)