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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1957-16 05-02 AP <.. CHAPTBlt ' WATERS AND WATERWAYS An Ordinance Regulating The Operation of Boats and Watercraft Village of Brooklyn Center The Village Council the Village of THE NORTH HENNEPIN POST Brooklyn Center do orda : SECTION 33.101. PURPOSE. No per - a shall navigate, operate, doer. or anchor AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION any boat, motorboat, watercraft upon Twin Lakes, Ryan Lak e and Palmer Lake, "except in accordance with the provision, .of this ordinance, which shall apply only to the operation of boats, motorboats, or watercraft in the above stated lakes. SECTION 33.102. LICENSE REQUIR- ED. No boat, motorboat, or watercraft STATE OF MINNESOTA [shall be operated on Twin Lakes, Ryan COUNTY OF HENNEPIN SS ' Lake or Palmer Lake unless registered and .licensed in the name of the actual owner excepting boats used for weed control or ,other lake improvement activities. The li. gcense shall carry a description of the boat. Said license shall be obtained at Robbins• jdale, Crystal, or Brooklyn Center, or at a registry so designated by the three E. C. L'Herault, being duly sworn on oath says that he is and during all the times herein stated has ce 1 'vil s. 3 CTION 33 -103. LICENSE NUMBER. been President of The Post Publishing Co., the publishers of the newspaper known as THE NORTH All licenses issued shall have a number. IIENNEPIN POST, and has full knowledge of /the facts herein stated; that for more than one year The license number must be painted, sten• . !efled, or permanently attached on both Port- side and starboard side of watercraft ' 1 ` .jL�Ltti . in letters havin ga minimum height of prior to he publication therein of the.... •••* / 1••••••••••••• 2yj" and in a distinguishable color. %ECTION 33 -104. FEE. The license �fC. ✓ hereto attached, said newspaper was [ fee shall be $1.00 for a period of one year, printed and ublished in the% illage of Crystal in the County of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, on The same number shall be issued if li• Thursda tense is taken out for the same boat n y of each week; that urin g all said time the following conditions have existed: i consecutive years. A copy of the ordinance shall be furnished eacl} applicant at time �he license is obtained. Said newspaper has been printed in the English language from its known office of publication within l SECTION 33- navigating, sting, oc The overall pap p ength of boats navigating, docked, anchor- the village from which it purports to be issued as above stated in column and sheet form equivalent in space ed, or operate on the above stated lakes to at least 450 running inches of single column, two inches wide; it has been issued once each week from a tis not to exceed sixteen feet in length. A known office established in such place for publication and equipped with skilled workmen and necessary ispecial permit is required for any water. . material for preparing and printing the same; the press work thereon has been done in its known office of craft longer than sixteen feet. publication; in its makeup not less than twenty -five per cent of its news column has been devoted to local SECTION 33.106. MUFFLERS RE- news of interest to the community which it purports to serve; it has contained general news, comment and QUIRED. It is unlawful to use a boat miscellany; it has not wholly duplicated any other publication and has not been entirely made up of pat- 'propelled in whole or in part by gas, gaso• ents, plate matter, and advertisements; it has been circulated in and near its said place of publication to the line, or naptha unless the same is provided extent of at least two hundred and forty (240) copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers; it has had with a stock factory muffler, underwater entry as second class matter in its local postoffice; and there has been on file in the office of the County ] exhaust or other modern device capable of Auditor of Hennepin County, Minnesota, the affidavit of a person having knowledge of the facts, showing adequately snuffling the sound of the ex. the name and location of said newspaper and the existence of the conditions constituting its qualifications newspaper. al haunt of the engine. The phrase Ado- as a legal P Per. gvately muffling" shall mean that the mo- tor's exhaust at all tines shall be so muffled or suppressed as not to create That the legal or official matter hereto attached was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was excessive or unusual noise. The discharge g of cooling water through the exhaust of any inboard engine shall be considered an adequate muffling device. Motorboats may printed and published therein in the English language once each week, for ..............su essive weeks; be operated with - cutouts or mufflers open :: while actually c ompeting in any race li- That it first so published on Thursday, tensed to be held by the Village Council. P y, the ............................ ..............day of SECTION 23.107. SPEED AND OP- E'RATION OF MOTORBOATS. Every 7 operator of a motorboat shall at all times 19../., and thereafter on Thursday of each week to and navigate in a careful andr prudent manner avd at such rate of speed and along a cou rse as not to endanger the life, limb including the .I..... ........ day of .. .... .. .... .... 19......, snot course for property of sity person. that the following is a printed copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, and is hereby No person shall operate any motorboat acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said legal or at a rate of speed greater than will permit official matter, to -wit: hitn in the eeercise of reasonable care to ,living the motorboat to a stop within the abcdef hi klmno r assured clear distance ahead., g ) pq stuvwxyz -6 -pt. Oldstyle It is unlawful to operate a motorboat abedefghijklmnopgrstuvwxya -6 -pt. Devine in a careless or reckless manner. Reckless navigattoa a motorboat shall include op - rstuvwx abcdef h••klmno eratio " ,me in a manner which un- g u Pq YT- 7 -pt. Excelsior nece eres with the free and abedefghijklmnopgrstuvwxys -7V2 Memphis Bold .grope of the navigable water of the' sta or a ustnecessarily endangers other bo herein, or the life and limb of any ;lie , ulawful to xceed the speed limit x !of fi' tnile.'' it Lour in going under ` bridges or through channels s, SECTION 33.108. OP 12: #�F3T3 ... , .. ,TANCES. No fcraun shall ru }srdte, navigate or direct any motorboat, boat, or ;watercraft within seventy -five feet of an Subscribed And Sworn 7 before area being used by persons fishing, 100 _ feet of an area being used by persons l -� 1/ j t� - .swiinming, 300 feet of an area designated me this ......:.i1...;: ..day of......... 1 (' ............ A.D., 191U. as a public swimming beach, and 150 feet 'of shoreline extent ttben entering and leaving the lake. Any areas designated as y - `public swimming beaches shall be clearly marked with buoys. .......... J • .. ................ St,& -TION 33 -109, T1AI1';. No mechani- call powered boat, motorboat, or water - craft :shall he operated before sunrise or later than one lour after sunset. SECTION 31 CHANNELS, No pe snv shall obstruct ct au is channel and it s unlawful for any person to swim or dive from any bridge which crosses a channel. SECTION 33 WATER SPiING AND SURFROARDING. Water skiing is prohibited in the pritnary harbor, which is defined as 150 feet from the shoreline. Water skiing; is permitted from the lours ofs14 a.u,. to 7:30 p.m. s TEEWON' 334t2. OPERATION 'RV. C'ERTAI\ PERSON'S PROW131TED. It shall be unlawful for any person who is tinder the influence of intoxicating liquor, narcotic drugs or barbituates or any person Nu *ho is a habitual user of the same to op- l� • ................ aerate, propel or be in actual physical coii- rltrol of any boat. It shall be tmlawful for the owner or person having charge of or Affidavit of Publication ;control of any b6at to authorize or know- i permit the same to he .propelled or OF ® bperatkd,.,,by. any person_ who is; i' er the narc initen 'of into }eating,.:'nluuf, otic drYig" barbituates or an persmt t +'ho' is a habitual user of'the same:"'. ` SECTION' 33 -113. DUTIES OF OP -I , ERATOR IN CASE OF ACCIDENT. The loperator of any boat involved in an acci -+ dent resulting it) injury or death to any' erson or damage to property shall imme- diately stop such boat at the scene of such j aceident and shall give his name, address, (full identification of his boat and the name C u d address of the owner, to the person track or the operator or occupants of the bo callided with, and ,shall render to a Publish" is id. o ass inj ance and u shall nreportesuche ason_ de to the nearest or most convenient law THE NORTH HENNEPIN POST jenforeement agency or office. �- SECTION 33 -114. O PER A T I N. G BOX "B" ]RULES. When two boats are. approaching ROBBINSDALE MINNESOTA each other "head on" or nearly so, so as to involve risk of (ollision, it shall be the duty of each boat to hear to the right ands ipass the other boat on its left side. When boats approach each other obliquely 'or at DATE OF PUBLICATION right angles, the boat approaching on the ` right side has the right of way. One boat may overtake another on either side but must grant right of way to the overtaken boat. SECTION 33 -115. DEPOSITING RE-1 FUSEfl It is unlawful for any person to deposit aav refuse or waste front any boat ATTORNEY or from shore into the lake. SECTION 33 -116. DOCKS. It is unlawful to have floating docks away from', shore before and after the boating hours set forth in Section 33.109. It is tntlawful� Ito have docks on public or ,private ease- ments. It is unlawful to have docks extend . more than 30 feet from shore unless j water is less than 2 feet deep at the 30 foot distance. In such case the dock may be extended until water is 2 feet deep at its extremity. FILED SECTION 33 -117. PENALTIES. Any person who shall violate any provision of this ordinance will upon conviction thereof be fined not more than One Hundred ,($100.00) Dollars or imprisoned for not to 'exceed ninety (90) days for each offense. SECTION 33 -118. REPEAL.. The provi -. , sions of Chapter 33 of the Village Ordi .nances are hereby repealed and the pro- THE NORTH HENNEPIN POST visions of this urdinance shall be here- after designated as Chapter 33 and the sections hereof nu inhered as designated. RObbinfdale, M1nnef02a SECTION 33.119. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordin-*tce shall have effect from and after its passage and legal publication. 11 Adopted by the illage Council of the vill of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota this 23rd day of April, 1957. (Published in The North Hennepin Post, i f 2, 1957).