§ 26-37. Rules and regulations for mooring field.

(a)

Only recreational vessels may utilize the mooring field. Commercial vessels may enter the mooring field as needed for installation, repair and servicing of private, commercial or governmental facilities, or to transit the area while in the act of navigation.

(b)

Owners or operators of recreational vessels wishing to use a mooring must do so through a license agreement with the manager of the mooring field.

(c)

Entry into mooring system areas is prohibited, except by recreational vessels and their dinghies that are assigned to a mooring, recreational vessels visiting those recreational vessels assigned to a mooring, mooring field management and construction or repair vessels, and by enforcement vessels.

(d)

Only vessels in seaworthy condition shall be allowed to use the mooring field.

(e)

All vessels within the mooring field must have United States Coast Guard approved marine sanitation devices as required. All vessels equipped with a waste discharge shall have the seacock closed and sealed at all times while within the mooring field.

(f)

Mooring field licensees shall be required to pump-out sewage at approved pump-out facilities as needed. Mooring field licensees shall be informed by the manager in writing of the availability and requirements to use the sewage pump out facilities provided by the mooring facility or other available facilities.

(g)

Only biodegradable cleansers shall be used on vessels in the mooring field. The use of detergents containing ammonia, sodium hypochlorite, chlorinated solvents, petroleum distillates, or lye within the mooring field is prohibited.

(h)

Mooring field licensees are responsible for any damage that may be incurred to their assigned mooring or other moorings within the mooring field. The recreational vessel owner shall reimburse the county for any damage that he or his vessel may cause to county property within 30 days' notice (by certified mail or posting of licensees' vessel) of such damage.

(i)

Mooring of recreational vessels shall be at the sole risk of the licensees. The county is not liable for the care or protection of any vessel or its contents, or for any loss or damage of any kind or nature, resulting from mooring operations or use of moorings.

(Code 1979, § 5.5-80; Ord. No. 26-2001, § 1; Ord. No. 031-2002, § 4)