The provisions of this article shall apply to
boats, personal watercraft, boating, and to any watercraft propelled
by machinery used or capable of being used to stimulate water skiing
without the aid of a separate towing boat on Lake El Reno.
All Oklahoma state boating and safety regulations
will be enforced on Lake El Reno.
[Added 7-7-2009 by Ord. No. 7006]
A.
There
is hereby adopted by reference and made a part of the Code of Ordinances
of the City of El Reno all of the provisions of Chapter 72 of the
Oklahoma Boating Safety Regulation Act, as found in 63 O.S. §§ 4200
through 4236 and including any amendments thereto, and additionally
including the adopting of any statute in said chapters which provides
for discretionary adoption by a municipality. All of the provisions
found in these chapters are hereby adopted and incorporated herein
by reference, and are enforceable by the City within the City limits
as fully as if set out at length herein.
B.
In the
event that any ordinance of the City shall conflict with Chapter 72
of the Oklahoma Boating Safety Regulation Act found in Title 63 of
the Oklahoma Statutes, or any amendments thereto, then the provisions
of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes adopted herein shall be controlling.
C.
In the
event that penalties, incarcerations, fines, or costs imposed by Oklahoma
Statutes are in excess of the limits allowed to be imposed by municipalities,
then such penalties, incarcerations, fines, or costs allowable shall
control.
D.
In the
event that a violation of the law under the Oklahoma Statutes constitutes
a felony, then such a violation of the ordinances of the City shall
constitute a misdemeanor rather than a felony.
[Amended 6-13-2017 by Ord. No. 9108]
Any operation involving the rental of private boats or personal
watercraft for use on Lake El Reno shall require a special permit
from the City with terms as set and approved by the City Council.
Rowboats shall have the right-of-way at all
times over sailboats. Sailboats shall have the right-of-way at all
times over motorboats and personal watercraft.
All motorboats must be equipped with exhaust mufflers which must be used at all times while operating on the lake, except during racing, as authorized under § 250-40. All inboard motors must be equipped with flame arrestors.
The operator of a motor boat or personal watercraft
shall, at all times, keep such boat or personal watercraft at a safe
distance from other boats or vehicles.
No person operating a motorboat at a speed in
excess of five miles per hour shall come nearer than 200 feet to any
bank or nearer than 100 feet to any anchored boat.
A.
"No-wake areas" are hereby established. These areas
will be appropriately designated with the use of buoys and/or signs.
Motorboats and personal watercraft shall move only at idling speed,
less than five miles per hour.
B.
Motorboats and personal watercraft shall be operated
in any neck or bay only for the purpose of fishing and shall move
only at idling speed, less than five miles per hour.
No person shall participate in any boat race,
or in any race between a boat and a personal watercraft or between
multiple personal watercraft, unless such race is specifically authorized
by the City Council.
If a boat or personal watercraft is left upon
the lake premises unattended for more than 24 hours, the boat or personal
watercraft will be confiscated and disposed of by the City, without
compensation or remuneration to the owner thereof, it being construed
to have been abandoned.
Any boat or personal watercraft used or operated
in violation of any provision of this Part 1 may be removed, or ordered
removed, from the lake by the lake patrolmen.
