[Adopted 3-8-1967; approved 6-5-1967 (Art.
XIV of Ch. III of the General Ordinances as updated through 7-7-2003)]
A.
Speed shall not exceed six miles per hour, and no
wash shall be created in posted speed/wake areas nor within 150 feet
of bathers, divers, small vessels propelled by means other than machinery,
and vessels not underway. In posted marked navigational channels,
the speed/wake restriction shall extend 150 feet from the sides of
the channel.
[Amended 7-12-2012 by Order No. 2012-155]
B.
Speed shall not exceed six miles per hour, and no
wash shall be created on any pond not a great pond and on the following
great ponds: Garrett's Pond, Micah's Pond, Joshua's Pond, Neck Pond,
and Parker's Pond. Speed shall not exceed 35 miles per hour on Lake
Wequaquet.
C.
Horsepower of internal combustion engines shall not
exceed 10 horsepower on the following ponds: Hamblin's Pond; Middle
Pond; Mystic Lake, Long Pond, Centerville, Lovell's Pond, Shubael's
Pond, Long Pond, Marstons Mills.
The discharge or disposal of oil, dead fish,
garbage, waste, rubbish or debris on the waters, shores or foreshores
is prohibited.
[Amended 4-7-1971; approved 6-22-1971; 11-5-1977; approved 1-12-1978; 7-12-2012 by Order No. 2012-155]
A.
No vessel, mooring or other object shall be abandoned,
sunk or otherwise placed where it may constitute a danger to navigation.
Any vessel, mooring or object so placed, and any vessel improperly
secured, swamped, sunk, washed ashore or found in a restricted area,
may be removed or relocated by direction of the Harbormaster or an
Assistant Harbormaster if corrective action is not taken after 72
hours' notice to the owner, or if the owner is not known, after notice
has been posted for the same period at the Town Hall or on or near
such vessel, mooring or object. The expense of such removal or relocation,
and any liability incurred therefor, shall be the responsibility of
the owner.
B.
Nothing in the above shall be deemed to restrict earlier
action by the Harbormaster or an Assistant Harbormaster, with or without
notice to the owner, if, in their judgment, such action is necessary
to protect life or property.
[Amended 7-12-2012 by Order No. 2012-155]
A.
Vessel operators
are responsible for their wake at all times and shall not operate
a vessel in a reckless or negligent manner so as to endanger the life,
safety, or property of any person.
B.
No person
shall operate or maintain any vessel in a manner that violates MGL
c. 90B, or any regulations adopted thereunder, or any other state
or federal law that may apply.
A.
Water skiing is prohibited on any pond not a great
pond and on the following great ponds: Garrett's Pond, the Hathaway
Ponds, Micah's Pond, Joshua's Pond, Neck Pond and Parker's Pond. Water
skiing is prohibited on East Bay, West Bay, Cotuit Bay and all tidal
inlets and rivers.
B.
Water skiing as hereinafter permitted is subject to
the provisions of MGL c. 90B, § 8, and to the further restriction
that there shall be no water skiing within 150 feet of bathers, divers,
piers, docks, floats, moorings, other boats or of the shore. Additionally
there shall be no water skiing within 300 feet of a shoreline being
used as a swimming area whether public or private. For the purpose
of this article, the words "water skiing" shall include the towing
or manipulation of a surfboard, tube or other similar device behind
a vessel.
[Amended 7-12-2012 by Order No. 2012-155; 4-25-2013 by Order No.
2013-083]
C.
Water skiing is permitted on Great Ponds except those
previously named.
D.
Water skiing is permitted on Cape Cod Bay, Nantucket
Sound, Popponesset Bay and in the following bay and harbor areas described
below:
(1)
That portion of North Bay lying westerly of a line
running from a pier on St. Mary's Island to the northernmost tip of
Little Island. Skiing will not be permitted here on weekends and holidays.
[Amended 7-12-2012 by Order No. 2012-155]
(2)
That portion of Hyannisport Harbor lying easterly
of a line running from the stone jetty at the entrance to Stewarts
Creek to the angle point in the Hyannisport breakwater.
[Amended 7-12-2012 by Order No. 2012-155]
(3)
Hyannis Harbor, except in that portion thereof lying
within 150 feet of either side of the center line of the buoyed entrance
channel to said harbor from entrance channel buoy No. 6 to Dunbar's
Point and Lewis Bay, except in an area that lies west of a line 150
feet parallel to and east of the center line of the buoyed entrance
channel to Hyannis inner harbor.
[Amended 3-28-1973; approved 6-25-1973]
(4)
That portion of Barnstable Harbor lying northerly
of a line running from Calves Pasture Point through the No. 1 Buoy
at Maraspin's Creek entrance channel to the Town line at Yarmouth
Creek.
[Amended 7-12-2012 by Order No. 2012-155]
Any person or persons skin diving or scuba diving
shall:
A.
Display a diver's flag consisting of a red field with
a white diagonal stripe of a size not less than 12 inches square.
B.
Display such flag on a float or other similar device
holding such flag upright at a height sufficient to be visible to
passing boats.
