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igate the waterways. Includes but is not 1 i m- than machinery ited to, a motor boat,row boat,jet boat, sail boat, (d) vessels not underway (for example dinghy, inflatable boat or personal watercraft. moored or anchored) 1, "Waterways" - any body of water upon which watercraft can be used. (e) commercial docking or mooring areas In this bylaw,the definitions as found in MGL Chapter (f) private docking or mooring areas 90,§1 Definitions, as published and as may be amend- 4. On the following bodies of tidal water: ed, shall have the same meaning. (a) Great River, except in any planing §170-2. Promulgation of Regulations; .Posting of channel as may be posted in Upper Signs. Great River A. The Harbormaster shall promulgate regulations (b) Little River to implement the provisions of this chapter. (c) Santuit River B. The Harbormaster, Assistant Harbormasters, or (d) Mashpee River Waterways Assistants shall see that speed,water- skiing, and personal watercraft regulations are (e) Ockway Bay, except in any planing posted at public landings on waterways within channel as may be posted the town. Further signs and markers may be (f) In the Mashpee part of Shoestring placed at strategic locations throughout the Bay and Simons Narrows waterways. §170-3. Enforcement; Violations and Penalties. 5. During conditions of low visibility A. Unless otherwise specified,the provisions of this B. A boat or personal watercraft operator within chapter as well as Chapter 90B shall be enforced sight of a diver's flag shall proceed with caution by the Harbormaster and Assistant and within a radius of one hundred (100) feet of Harbormasters, and by police officers empow- such flag shall proceed at a speed not to exceed ered to patrol the waters of the Town of three (3) miles per hour. Mashpee. §170-5.Water-skiing; Tubing; Kneeboarding. B. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this A. All water-skiing, tubing and kneeboarding is chapter and refused to obey the lawful and rea- subject to the applicable provisions of the sonable orders of those empowered to enforce General Laws of the Commonwealth, as amend- same or resists them in the discharge of their ed, and to the further restriction that no water- x duties shall be fined according to the fine sched- skiing, tubing or kneeboarding is allowed in ule set forth in regulations promulgated by the Mashpee in or on the freshwater ponds before the t Harbormaster and approved by the Board of hour of 10:00 a.m. and after the hour of 7:00 p.m. Selectmen pursuant to Section 170-2 (A) of this B Water-skiing,tubing and kneeboarding is permit- chapter. (Mashpee Waterways Regulations, Mashpee Mooring Regulations and Mashpee ted on fresh water ponds and tidal waters of Pond Ramp Regulations). Violation of this chap- Popponesset Bay, Nantucket Sound, and ter may be enforced by non-criminal disposition Waquoit Bay subject to the following restric- pursuant to MGL Chapter 40 Section 21(D). tions: 1. Not within one hundred fifty (150) feet ' §170-4. Speed. of: A. Maximum Speed for watercraft is "Slow, No Wake" (Headway Speed): (a) Shoreline, except where posted as permitted I. during the period from one (1) hour after sunset to one(1)hour before sunrise,in any (b) Swimmers area of any fresh water waterway. (c) Watercraft underway by means 2. in posted areas other than motorss,'� 3• within one hundred fifty (150) feet of: (d) Watercraft not underway (for example moored or anchored) (a) shore (e) Areas with posted speed limits (b) bathers (also see Swim area) (f) Commercial docking or mooring (c) vessels propelled by means other areas 73