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Defined terms
§29.1-100
Disregarding
signals to stop,
§29.1-739.1
Operating boat
so as to impede fishing,
§29.1-738
Boating under
the influence,
§29.1-738;
§29.1-738.01;
§29.1-738.02;
§29.1-738.03;
§29.1-738.1;
§29.1-738.2;
§29.1-738.3
Removal of
vessel from scene,
§29.1-738.6
Warrantless
arrests authorized,
§19.2-81
Age to operate
personal watercraft,
§29.1-748
Public
swimming areas,
§29.1-734
Skin and scuba
divers,
§29.1-734.1
Regulations
for vessel operation and equipment,
§29.1-735
Seaplane
regulation authority,
§29.1-735.1
Boat rentals,
equipment, safety course,
§29.1-736
Disregarding
signal by law enforcement officer to stop,
§29.1-739.1
Jetskis,
permitting person under age 14 to operate,
§29.1-749
Jetskis,
unlawful operation,
§29.1-748
Shooting at or
throwing missiles at vessels or other watercraft,
§18.2-154
Slacking speed
and controlling wakes near structures,
§29.1-744.3
Spraying
object or person with jet spray (reckless operation),
§29.1-738.03
Unauthorized
use,
§18.2-102
Wake jumping
(reckless operation),
§29.1-738.03
Town
Ordinances
Docks,
wharves, curfew for minors (50-1)
Exhausts, excessive, unreasonable or unnecessary sound or
noise (38-1)
Injuring, tampering with vehicles, aircraft, boats (50-20)
Motorboat
wake (90-1)
Boating Safety Tips
USCG Boating Safety
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Town Ordinance
50-1, Curfew for minors.
(a) It shall be unlawful for
any person under the age of 18 years to loiter, idle, play or
otherwise be in or upon the streets, highways, roads, alleys or
other public ways, parks, playgrounds, wharves, docks, beaches,
public places, public buildings, places of amusement and
entertainment, vacant lots or other unsupervised places within
the town, either on foot or in a vehicle, between the hours of
12:30 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. of any day.
(b) The provisions of this
section shall not apply to a minor accompanied by his parent,
guardian or ther adult person having the care and custody of the
minor or when the minor is upon an emergency errand or
legitimate business directed by his parent, guardian or other
adult person having the care and custody of the minor. Any
minor violating the provisions of this subsection shall be dealt
with in accordance with juvenile court law and procedure.
(c) The violation of
subsection (a) of this section is hereby declared to be within
the purview of Code of Virginia,
§16.1-246(C). An officer
taking a minor into custody for such violation shall comply with
the provisions of Code of Virginia, §16.1-247.
(d) It shall be unlawful and a
class 4 misdemeanor for the parent, guardian or other adult
person having the care and custody of a minor to knowingly
permit such minor to violate the provisions of subsection (a) of
this section.
(Code 1982, §12-1)
Town Ordinance 38-1, Excessive, unreasonable or unnecessary
sound or noise.
(a) Prohibited generally.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make, or to cause or
allow to be made, upon property in the town which he owns or
leases or over which he has control, whether solely or together
with another or others, any excessive noise or sound, whether
vocally, mechanically, electronically or otherwise, of such a
character, volume, duration or frequency as to disturb, injure
or endanger the quiet, comfort, repose, health, peace or safety
of any person.
(b) Acts enumerated.
The following acts are specifically declared to be in violation
of this section when the commission thereof is such or is in
such a manner as to disturb, injure or endanger the quiet,
comfort, repose, health or safety of any other person; but such
enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusive:
- Horns, signaling
devices, etc. Sounding of any horn or signaling
device on any automobile, motorcycle, bicycle or other
vehicle on any street or public place in the town, except as
a danger warning; or the creation, by means of any signaling
device, of any unreasonable, loud or harsh sound for an
unreasonable period of time.
- Radios, phonographs.
Using, operating or permitting to be played, used or
operated, any radio receiving set, tape recorder, musical
instrument, phonograph or other electronic or other machine
or device for the producing or reproducing of sound at such
a volume as to disturb another person who is not within the
confines of the room, vehicle or property in which such
machine or device is operated and who is not a willing
listener thereto. The operation of any such device in
such a manner that the resultant noise or sound is audible
at a distance of at least 50 feet from the building,
structure, property or vehicle in which it is located shall
be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section.
- Loudspeakers,
amplifiers. The using, operating or permitting the
playing, using or operation of any radio receiving set,
musical instrument, phonograph, loudspeaker, sound amplifier
or other electronic or other machine or device for the
producing or reproducing of sound upon the public streets or
parking lots unless the resultant noise or sound shall be
not clearly audible a greater distance than 50 feet distant
from the vehicle or other enclosure in which it is contained
or at least 50 feet from the source thereof, if not
contained within any vehicle or other enclosure.
- Animals.
The keeping of any animal which shall be the source of any
noise or sound.
- Exhausts.
The discharge into open air of the exhaust of any steam or
diesel engine, stationary internal combustion engine, chain
saw, power mower, motorboat or motor vehicle, except through
a muffler or other device which will effectively prevent any
noise or sound.
- Defects in vehicle.
The use of any automobile, motorcycle or other vehicle so
out of repair, or loaded in such a manner, as to create loud
grating, grinding, rattling or other noise or sound.
- Hawkers.
The shouting and crying of peddlers, hawkers and vendors.
- Musical instruments.
The use of any drums or other musical instrument or device
for the purpose of attracting attention, by creation of
noise, to any performance, show or sale.
(c) Exemptions.
This section shall have no application to fire, rescue, police,
ambulance or other emergency vehicles or aircraft or to any
noise or sound created thereby or by any person to sound a
warning or call attention to a bona fide emergency. Nor
shall it apply to noise or sound which customarily accompanies
bona fide parades, sporting events, public functions or
commemorative events; nor to noise or sound which customarily
accompanies activities of churches and synagogues; nor to
activities conducted in any gymnasium, arena, theater,
amphitheater, swimming pool, stadium, rifle range, gun club, or
any similar sporting facility; whether any such activity occurs
indoors or outdoors, except to the extent that any such parade,
function, event or activity shall be conducted without a use
permit when such permit is required by the terms of this Code.
(d) Violations.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall
be deemed guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor. Each day such
violation is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute
a separate offense and shall be punishable as such under this
section.
(Code 1982, §12-15)
Charter reference -
Prevention of noise, §20(b).
Town Ordinance 50-20, Injuring, tampering with vehicles,
aircraft, boats.
(a) Any person who shall,
individually or in association with one or more others,
willfully break, injure, tamper with or remove any part of any
vehicle, aircraft, boat or vessel for the purpose of injuring,
defacing or destroying such vehicle, aircraft, boat or vessel,
or temporarily or permanently preventing its useful operation,
or for any purpose against the will or without the consent of
the owner of such vehicle, aircraft, boat or vessel, or who
shall in any other manner willfully or maliciously interfere
with or prevent the running or operation of such vehicle,
aircraft, boat or vessel, shall be guilty of a class 1
misdemeanor.
(b) Any person who shall,
without the consent of the owner or person in charge of a
vehicle, aircraft, boat, vessel, locomotive or other rolling
stock of a railroad, with intent to commit any crime, malicious
mischief or injury thereto, or who, while a vehicle, aircraft,
boat, vessel, locomotive or other rolling stock of a railroad is
at rest and unattended, shall attempt to manipulate any of the
levers and starting crank or other device, brakes or mechanism
thereof or to set into motion such vehicle, aircraft, boat,
vessel, locomotive or other rolling stock of a railroad, with
the intent to commit any crime, malicious mischief or injury
thereto, shall be guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor. This
subsection shall not apply when any such act is done in an
emergency or in furtherance of public safety or by or under the
direction of an officer in the regulation of traffic or
performance of any other official duty.
(c) The provisions of this
section shall not apply to a bona fide repossession of a
vehicle, aircraft, boat or vessel by the holder of a lien on
such a vehicle, aircraft, boat or vessel, or by agents or
employees of such lienholder.
(Code 1982, §12-28)
Cross reference -
Traffic and vehicles, ch. 78
State law reference - Similar provisions, Code of
Virginia,
§§18.2-146-18.2-148
Town Ordinance
90-1, Motorboat wake.
It shall be unlawful for any
purpose to operate a boat in such a manner as to cause the boat
to create a wake or propwash sufficient to disturb or threaten
damage to other boats, whether moored, anchored or underway,
within any portion of any waterway in the town designated a "no
wake zone" by the establishment or erection of "no wake" signs.
Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a class 4
misdemeanor.
(Code 1982, §12-36)