[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.
C. 
Stay within 150 feet of the aforesaid float and flag or tow the float and flag with him while he is submerged and surface thereunder, unless for special purposes permission is granted in writing by the Harbormaster to otherwise display flags for the protection of divers.[1]
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Editor’s Note: Former §§ 40-7, 40-8 and 40-10, which immediately followed, were renumbered as §§ 40-16, 40-17 and 40-18, respectively, by Order No. 2012-155, adopted 7-12-2012. This order also repealed former § 40-9, Jurisdiction.