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95.26 Water Activities
95.26 WATER ACTIVITIES
           
(a)        Boating
                       
(1)        No boat or vessel shall be laid up, stored, repaired, or placed for any other purpose on park land except by permit.
 
(2)        No person shall operate a boat or raft on any waters under the jurisdiction of the Board, unless able to control or handle it with safety to himself or other occupants, or otherwise in a careful and prudent manner and at a rate of speed so as not to molest, annoy, disturb or endanger the life, limb, property, or reasonable comfort or safety of others.
 
(3)        Boating of any kind in a bathing area is forbidden.                                                
 
(b)       Fishing
 
Fishing is prohibited in any waters under the jurisdiction of the Board except such areas as are designated or maintained as fishing areas. No person shall have in his possession or take or attempt to take any fish in any waters except in designated areas, or at any time throw missiles at any fish, or place in the waters any piscivorous fish, poison, or other substances injurious to fish. Ice fishing, while situated on the ice layer of any waters under the jurisdiction of the Board, is prohibited. (Ord. 19-1990)
 
(c)       Bathing
 
No person shall bathe, wade, or swim in any waters under the jurisdiction of the Board except at such times and in such places as the Board may designate or maintain as bathing areas and except in bathing costume or other than ordinary attire. No person shall bathe, wade, or swim, or appear, in a bathing area unless covered with a bathing suit, having trunks, properly supported with straps or other devices which must be kept in place at all times. No person shall dress or undress in any park except in such places as may be designated or maintained for the purpose.   (‘72 Code, 6.18, 6.19, 6.20) (Ord. 1853-1961) Penalty, see 10.99


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