The following rules and regulations shall apply
to all waters or waterways within or adjacent to the Village of East
Rockaway, for a distance of 1,500 feet from the shoreline and subject
to its jurisdiction, except when prohibited by the laws of the United
States.
All provisions of the Navigation Law of this
state, of the inland rules enacted by Congress and governing the navigation
of the inland waters of the United States and of the Pilot Rules for
United States Inland Waters, applicable to the channel systems relative
to the rules for vessels passing each other, as to lights on vessels
and other matters consistent with the proper use of the channel systems,
shall be complied with by all vessels navigating said systems.
[Amended 3-14-1988 by L.L. No. 3-1988]
As used in this Article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
BOAT or VESSEL and OTHER WATERCRAFT
Includes every description of watercraft or other contrivance
used on or capable of being used as a means of transportation or otherwise
in water.
CHANNEL SYSTEMS
Main channels, cross channels connecting with them, basins
and bathing areas.
OWNER
Includes the person or firm whose name the vessel or watercraft
was last registered with the United States Coast Guard or the New
York State Department of Public Works or, in any other case, the last
known owner.
The discharging of toilets is prohibited in
areas designed as basin, dock or bathing areas.
The dumping of oil, refuse, garbage or waste
in channel systems, basins, docks or bathing areas is prohibited.
Every person operating a boat, vessel or watercraft,
as herein defined, shall at all times operate the same in a careful
and prudent manner and at such a rate of speed as not to disturb the
reasonable comfort or endanger the property of another or the life
or limb of any person, or so as to interfere with the free use, as
well as the proper use, of the waters of the channel. Throwing up
a wake which is dangerous to life or limb of persons, boats or other
property is also prohibited by this Article.
No owner and/or person in charge of any boat, vessel or watercraft as herein defined shall, while moored, anchored or otherwise, within said waterways as defined in §
96-32 hereof, permit or authorize an occupant or occupants thereof to so conduct himself or themselves in such a noisy and/or disorderly manner that a breach of the public peace is thereby created.
Water skiing, aquaplaning or similar sports
are hereby prohibited in any speed zone of four miles per hour and
in any areas designated as a boat basin, anchorage or bathing area,
without the written consent of the Village Board of the Village of
East Rockaway.
No person shall operate a boat propelled wholly
or partly by an engine operated by gas, gasoline, naphtha, diesel
oil or other substance without having the exhaust from the engine
run through a muffler or so controlled by the introduction of water
into the exhaust pipe or line so as to muffle the noise of exhaust
in a reasonable manner.
The racing of power driven boats of any type
is prohibited unless written permission shall have been received from
the Village Board of the Village of East Rockaway. The application
therefor shall state the time and place of the proposed race or races,
the types of boats participating therein and the type and kind of
race to be conducted.
The Police Department of the County of Nassau is hereby empowered to enforce the provisions of this Article, and every person in charge of the vessel, boat or watercraft navigating or using the waterways as defined in §
96-32 hereof, shall at all times obey the lawful orders of the members of the Police Department. Such Department shall have the right to stop any vessel, boat or watercraft navigating or using the waterways defined in §
96-32 of this Article, for the purposes of enforcing this Article.
[Amended 8-10-1987 by L.L. No. 4-1987]
Any person committing an offense against any
provision of this Article shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty
of a violation pursuant to the Penal Law of the State of New York,
punishable by a fine not exceeding $250 or by imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The
continuation of an offense against the provisions of this Article
shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a separate
and distinct offense hereunder.