[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Wall 11-8-1978 as Sec. 3-10 of the Revised General Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
General penalty — See Ch. 1, Art. I.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
MOTORIZED PERSONAL WATERCRAFT
Includes the class of small, motorized, non-propeller-driven, personal watercraft, including but not limited to those registered trade names as Jet Ski, Skidoo and Waverunner.
WATERCRAFT
Includes any ship, vessel, boat, motor boat, said boat or vehicle used on water, including seaplanes when not airborne, and any contrivance, vehicle, object, vessel, or matter that can be used both in water or on land, or in water and in air, or any combination of these uses.
WATERWAY
All that area of the Shark River and Manasquan River within the boundary lines of the Township.
No person shall operate any watercraft, unless properly licensed, as required by applicable state regulations on the waterways of the Township.
No person shall operate any watercraft in the aforesaid waterway:
A. 
Which is not equipped as required by the regulations of the United States Coast Guard.
B. 
In a reckless manner, or at any excessive rate of speed, so as to endanger the life or property of any person, having due regard for the presence of other boats, or persons, or other objects in or on said waterway.
C. 
At a rate of speed which causes or is likely to cause damage to docks, wharves, seawalls, or watercraft moored to docks or wharves, along said waterways.
D. 
At a speed in excess of six miles an hour in the Federal Channel of the waterway. The limitations on speed, prescribed by this section, shall not apply to seaplanes in the process of landing or taking off in proper prescribed areas. Further, the provisions of this section shall not be construed to prohibit the running of racing or exhibition watercraft, muffled or unmuffled, during a publicly announced and properly supervised and adequately patrolled regatta or speed trial or exhibition.
E. 
While under the influence of intoxicating liquor, narcotics, drugs or opiates.
F. 
With an outboard, or inboard motor, unless the same is equipped with an adequately muffled exhaust.
G. 
Use any bell, siren, or other noise producing or noise amplifying instrument in such a manner that the peace, quiet and good order of the neighborhood is disturbed; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the use of whistles, bells or horns as signals as required by any federal or state law for the safe navigation of watercraft.
H. 
In such a manner as to unjustifiably or unnecessarily annoy or frighten or endanger the occupants of any other watercraft, or throw up a dangerous wake.
I. 
Shall use searchlights indiscriminately or in such a manner, as to annoy or disturb other persons on land or water, or any other watercraft.
Every boat in the waterway which is abandoned, or which becomes a menace to navigation or unseaworthy, or sinks, grounds or becomes otherwise disabled, is hereby declared to be a nuisance and the person in charge thereof shall abate such nuisance within 48 hours after notice thereof from the Township Police  Department.
No watercraft shall be moored in any channel, except at the edge thereof, and in no case closer than 50 feet to channel markers, and in no way as to interfere with the full use of the channel by others, nor shall any watercraft be moored to any private or public seawall, dock or beach without permission of the owner or lessee thereof.
The Township Police Department shall have authority to board any watercraft moored in violation of this chapter, or abandoned, or otherwise disabled as stated in § 72-4, and move it, or cause it to be moved, to another location, and to hold such watercraft for payment of costs incurred in its removal and/or storage.
Persons in charge of, or occupying, or being guests or passengers on boats docked at or moored to land, docks, piers, wharves or areas abutting the waterway, or sailing or operating in any waters of the Shark or Manasquan Rivers, shall observe all health and sanitary regulations, and all ordinances relating to the conduct of persons and prohibiting acts contrary to public health, morals, safety or public peace. All heads, toilets, toilet and washing facilities shall be locked, closed and not used on any boat while within the confines of the Township, whether docked or moored or traveling or standing still on the waterway or any portion of the Shark or Manasquan Rivers within the boundary lines of the Township. No feces, excrement, odor, fecal matter, effluent material, manure, urine, or any impure, nasty, foul, squalid, dirty, polluted, filthy, unclean, soiled, tarnished, stained, sullied, rank, fetid, or putrid material or liquid shall be discharged or released or placed in the waterway, or on any land, docks, piers, wharves or areas abutting the waterway, or in any portion of Shark or Manasquan Rivers located within the boundary lines of the Township.
All persons in charge of, or occupying any watercraft, at all times, keep docks, piers, seawalls and premises adjacent to such watercraft in a neat and orderly manner and free from all trash, rubbish, repair parts, machinery, equipment and debris of all kinds.
No person in charge of or occupying any watercraft shall dump or throw garbage, paper, bottles, cans, refuse, trash or debris into the waterways. Persons in charge of the watercraft moored or docked in the waterway, or along the same, or persons from whom they rent piers, docks, slips or wharves, shall provide garbage cans of sufficient size to hold garbage, trash and refuse to be collected daily in the summer time and twice weekly at other times of the year.
No person shall swim or skin-dive in any area of the waterway, or from any of its adjoining docks, piers, or walls, except where specifically designated for such use by the Township Committee.
Boat trailers, and vehicles attached to the same, shall be parked only in specific areas designated for the same by the Township Committee.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to launch, bring, beach or place, whether temporarily or permanently, any watercraft or motorized personal watercraft on or from the Manasquan Park boat ramp, located on property known as Lot 9 in Block 85, as shown on the Tax Map of the Township of Wall, without first receiving a permit from the Township of Wall Department of Operations. There shall be no fee for the issuance of a permit.
B. 
All registered owners of watercraft and motorized personal watercraft shall be required to obtain a permit from the Township of Wall Department of Operations. No such permit shall be issued unless:
(1) 
The registered owner is a Wall Township resident.
(2) 
The registered owner submits a written application to the Department of Operations setting forth the name, address and telephone number of the registered owner of the watercraft and the type and registration number of the boat. All applications must be signed by the registered owner.
(3) 
The registered owner of the watercraft executes an indemnity agreement, on a form to be provided by the Township, indemnifying and holding the Township harmless with respect to any damage to or loss of watercraft and with respect to any and all claims and suits for property damage and/or bodily injuries arising out of the ownership, use, maintenance or operation of the watercraft.
(4) 
The registered owner submits a homeowner's policy, certificate of insurance or some other acceptable proof that the registered owner and, in the case of motorized personal watercraft, the Township are insured against liability for property damage and bodily injuries arising out of the ownership, use, maintenance, and operation of the watercraft in an amount not less than a combined single limit of $300,000.
C. 
All permits shall be issued on a first-come, first-serve basis. The director of operations shall have the right to limit the number of permits that are issued for each class of watercraft. No more than one permit shall be issued to any one person for each class of watercraft.