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B. Personal Watercraft operation is permitted on fresh (1) The location, type and adequacy of every water ponds and the tidal waters of Popponesset marker, float, buoy, mooring, or fishing device Bay,Nantucket Sound, and Waquoit Bay subject to (including but not limited to; lobster pots, crab the same restrictions for watercraft above. In addi- pots,conch or whelk pots, and toad fish traps)must tion, prohibited activities are: be approved by the Harbormaster or an Assistant a. Towing any object using a personal watercraft. Harbormaster before placement.Any marker,float, b. Operation between the hours of sunset and sun- buoy, mooring, or fishing device may be inspected, rise or when vision is unduly restricted by removed or relocated whenever, in the judgmentol J weather the Harbormaster or an Assistant Harbormaster, c. Operation on bodies f - o water of less than sev P the safety of the other vessels or properties or max enty-five (75) acres imum use of the area requires such action. The d. Operation by a person under the age of sixteen expense of such inspection, removal, or relocation (16) shall be the responsibility of the owner. e. Operation by a person between sixteen(16)and (2) Each marker, float, or buoy and markers for seventeen (17) without first having received a fishing devices shall be properly marked with the safety certificate required by 323 CMR 4.03(2) identification of the owner in a manner prescribed C. All personal watercraft operators shall wear a by the Harbormaster as promulgated in the Mash- wearable Personal Flotation Device (Type III or pee Mooring Regulations. better; Life belts are not acceptable.) (3) During the period 1 June through 30 Septe n- §170-7. Swim areas. [Added 19951 ber, mooring balls shall be used. A. Public Bathing Area From 1 October through 31 March, mooring No person shall operate a watercraft: balls or winter buoys may be used. Winter buoys a. within one hundred fifty (150) feet of a public (sticks) or numbered markers completely sub. bathing area merged onto the bottom shall be used. z' b. within one hundred fifty (150) to three hundred From 1 April through 31 May, only winter (300) feet of a public bathing area except at headway speed. buoys (sticks) or mooring balls may be used.(Sub- merged markers must be removed.) [Added 199] B. Private Swimming Area No person shall operate a motorboat within one B. Permits. The Harbormaster shall have the exclu- sive fifty (150) feet of a shoreline which is sive right to issue permits for the placement of being used as a private swim area. moorings for vessels,boats,rafts and floats held by anchors or bottom moorings at any locations with §170-8. Divers and diving [Added 5-3-82 ATM, in the territorial jurisdiction of the town. Art. 28, approved 9-7-$2]. C. Regulations. The Harbormaster shall adopt regula- Any person or persons skin diving or scuba diving tions for anchoring of and the placement and main. shall: tenance of moorings to anchor boats, vessels,rafts, A. Display a diver's flag constructed of rigidly sup- and floats and make these regulations available on ported material at least twelve by fifteen (12 x 15) request to any applicant for a permit. inches in an area of red background with a white D. Fees. The Board of Selectmen shall establish a fec diagonal stripe. schedule for mooring permits. The Harbormaster B. Display such flag on a boat or surface float extend- shall be responsible for the annual collection of the ing a minimum distance of three (3) feet from the fees for each mooring permit he issues. The rev, surface of the water, or to such other height in enue collected shall be added to a separate fund to excess of three(3) feet as to be sufficient to be vis- be used for dredging or other waterways related ible to passing boats. expenses. [Amended 10-1-1990 ATM, ARt. 10, Approved 12-18-1990, Amended 1995] C. Stay in an area within one hundred (100) feet of E. If the owner of a mooring does not use the moor such displayed diver's flag while at or near the sur- ing for the designated purpose for two (2) consec face of the water. utive years, the Harbormaster may revoke or D. Recreational diving or swimming in marked boat decline to renew the mooring permit. [Added 10• channels is prohibited. [Added 1995] 1-1990 ATM, Art. 11, approved 12-18-19901 §170-9. Moorings. [Amended 1995] §170-10. Abandonment [Amended 1995] A. General A. The Harbormaster or an Assistant Harbormaster may take immediate action to remove any vessel, mooring, or other object without following the pro, 78