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Home My WebLink About1954-11 06-24 AP 1 VILLAGE OF BROOKLYN CENTER . Hennepin Count • Minnesota AN ORDINANCE TO REGU- 1 L. TE THE USE' AND OPERA- 514 • , TION OF BOATS AND WATER- CRAFT ON WATERS LYING 1 WITHIN THE VILLAGE OF BROOKLYN CENTER, PROVIH- IN.G A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF 4 THE VZLL.AGE ' COUNCIL OF THE THE NORTH HENNEPIN POST VILLA-GE OF BROOPL.YN CENTER' Do e 1 .iN AS FOLLOWS: AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION Section 1. No person shaall ll navigate, op_ erate,- dock, anchor any boat or water- craft upon any water or waterway within ., the Village of Brooklyn Center except in - accordance with the provisions of this . ordinance and all other rules and. regu - 1 lations made a part hereof by reference. Section 2. For the purpose of this or- STATE OF MINNESOTA i dinance, the - tern - "person" 'shall mean COUNTY OF HENNEPIN SS. any 'person, firm, partnership,. corpora- - tion or other combination of persons. Section 3. For the purpose of this or- dinance, the -terns "boat" shall mean i every boat, houseboat, barge, vessel, raft, • canoe or other watercraft used as a sup- n port in or upon the water. - C , being dily on oath says that he is and during all the time herein Section 4. The doing of any thing, act, or the operation of any watercraft in violation of any of the provisions of this stated has been.. 4C j, -. P.4 - :i': of The Post Publishing Co., the publisher of ordinance is, hereby declared to consti* the newspaper known as THE NORTH HENNEP N POST, and has full knowled of the facts herein tute a public nuisance and as such is here- ,, � �, by prohibited. 'v - Section 5. No person under the age of sta�. ; the for more than one year prior to the Pubhca • n therein of the ?�Q .. .. ... . 15 years of age shall operate or have I charge of any motor boat, and no person / l ! l 9 l I d.-4-42.-.- und years shall the age of 13 r hereto attached, said newspaper was fi operate u any rowboat, canoe or sailboat unless Th n ri and published in the illage of Cryst in the Courrfy of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, on esa pp ' companied by an adult, except and unless flay of each week; that i tiring all said ti the following conditions have existed: a special permit therefor, has been granted by the Village Council. No' per- son, being the owner of such a water- Said newspaper has been rinted in the English language from its known office of publication within craft,- shall permit or allow a person un- p g g e der the ages herein specified, to operate the village from which it purports to be issued as above stated in column and sheet form equivalent in space P to at least 450 running inches of single column, two inches wide; it has been issued once each week from a or run such a watercraft, unless accom- known office established in such place for publication and equipped with skilled workmen and necessary panied by an adult. material for preparing and printing the same; the press work thereon has been done in its known office of Section 6. No person shall navigate, di- i publication; in its makeup not less than twenty -five per cent of its news column has been devoted to local rect or handle any boat in such a man - news of interest to the community which it purports to serve; it has contained general news, comment and ner as to annoy, unnecessarily frighten miscellany; it has not wholly duplicated any other publication and has not been entirely made up of pat- , or endanger the occupants of other boats ', ents, plate matter, and advertisements; it has been circulated in and near its said place of publication to the or watercraft, or of persons in or upon • extent of at least two hundred and forty (240) copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers; it has had the water. entry as second class matter in its local postoffice; and there has been on file in the office of the County Section 7. No person shall- run, epee.. Auditor of Hennepin County, Minnesota, the affidavit of a person having knowledge of the facts, showing ate,., navigate or direct any. motorboat or ' the name and location of said newspaper and the existence of the conditions constituting its qualifications sailboat within 100 feet of the area be- as a legal newspaper. ing used by, persons for swimming or des- ` ignatod by - the Village Council as a swimming area. That the legal or official matter hereto attached was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was Section 8. No boat exceeding 16 feet overall _ in ]cilgth shall be placed upon airy lake or 'waterway in the Village of printed and published therein in the English language once each week, for ..successive weeks; Brooklyn Center, except and unless a ei Ch. special,. permit has been granted by the t Atililtgq Council; That it w first so published on Thursday, the day of • Section 9> Every - motorboat propelled' b y an intense) e vert its engine, shall , 19:S. and thereafter on Thursday of each week to and i be equioPed to divert its exhaust under ivaGs and shall; be operated so that its exhaust shall be diverted underwater at including the day of 19 and all times, or shall otherwise be corn- that the following is a printed copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, and is hereby pletely and effectively muffled so as to acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said le l or .'9ilenee -such sound: ga official matter, to wit: • Section 1'0. No motorboat shall be al- l lowed.•to exceed - the speed - of 15 miles abcdefghijklmnopgrstuvwxyz -6 -pt. Oldstyle -- = abcdefghijklmnopgrstuvwxyz -6 -pt. Devinne , per hour unless a special permit is ob- abcdefghijklmnopgrstuvwxyz-- 71/2-pt. Excelsior -'4 twine by, the owner or operator the reor ' which - °p4tanit shall designate the time abcdefghijklmnopgrsfuvwxys -71/2 Memphis Bold ,, during which the same may be operate., i upon waters lying within the Village of ' Brooklyn Center and any other conditions or limitations, pursuant to which the same,,,.-, f; ' is issued. /. Section 11. : \ny person desiring to op- _ -' - f i ./ - /.fir / /�,r,/ , j -'/j ; grate any watercraft upon any body of ..i •!!�. } _�_- .rr,..%..P .� 1 ,,water or waterway within the Tillage of ,.. , Brooklyn Center otherwise prohibited, ex- cept upon the issuance of a special per- Subscribed and Sworn to before mit therefor, shall make application there - T � for in writing, to the Village Council, set- � ( tug out the type of watercraft, the horse- power of any motor by which it is to be me this day of , A.D., 19 propelled, the overall length of the craft, ! y the ntaxinnun speed at which the same -. -y( 0 can be propelled, with the motor, if any ' / �� ^ - �, intended to be used and described in such tom' '1/ i `'�-��".... �lX�i application, the name, age and residence ■ 1 of the owner thereof and any other in- formation that the village may request. ' . Section 12. Upon receipt of the appli- s- . :i.:: r t; t - "' ti- y ;iiii :'f Courity Minn. cation for special permit, the Village wtY. 1''f'•.el'�'.i'- +:,'G+5 E xpires Md re l ,2/ 7 Council shall determine whether or not r �� the same shall be issued and if such ap- - placation is approved the Tillage Council shall issue special permit to the owner 1 or operator thereof and shall set out there- in all conditions and limitations pursuant to which the same is issued. Any such permit shall be revoked if the holder 1 thereof is found guilty by a court of com- N � petent jurisdiction of the violation of any No. of the provisions of this ordinance. Special permits shall be non - transferrable , jaiid shall be revokable at any time with Affidavit of Publication out_ cause. In case of revocation, the vil- lage shall give the holder of said permit, . OF notice of such revocation by mail, ad- dressed to the holders' last known ad- dress. Section 13. No person shall operate any racing shell, speedboat or other water- craft designed primarily for racing or op- erating at a high rte of speed over the water and no such oat shall be placed do any lake within the Village of Brook- lyn - Center and no watercraft of any na- ture shall be operated at a speed in ex cess of that herein provided unless a special permit is obtained by the owner thereof. Published in Section 14.. Every motorboat and sail - boat shall be navigated in accordance with THE NORTH HENNEPIN POST the rules and regulations of the Minnesota 'A<e State Marine Laws, which regulations are hereby adopted and by ,this reference made BOX „B„ a part of this ordinance. ROBBINSDALE MINNESOTA Section 15. No person shall be or re- main in any boat or otherwise upon the lakes- or any other waterway within the DATE OF PUBLICATION Village of Brooklyn Center after dark nor before daylight: of the following day. Section 16. Should any section, clause or provision of this ordinance be declared by the Court to be invalid, the saute shall / not effect the validity of the ordinance as a whole or any part thereof, other than the part so declared to be invalid. ATTORNEY Section 17. Penalty. Any person vio- lating any provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of a mi.sthmeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished , by fine or not more than $100.00 or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days. Section 18. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and pu blieatio ,, . _ Passed by the Village Council of the Village of Brooklyn Center this 9th day • of Jts e, 1954. FILED Signed ARTHUR PAULSON tifayor Attest: (s) PAUL H. WEEKLY, Village Clerk (SEAL) (Published in The. North Hennepin Post 'June 24, 1954). THE NORTH HENNEPIN POST Robbinsdale, Minnesota _x. _