Title 10 - Parks and Recreation

10.08.140 Water Safety.

No boat or craft of any kind or character shall be operated on park waters unless it carries for each occupant a suitably designed life preserver in good condition and approved as adequate for that purpose, and every boat or craft of any kind or character shall have aboard oars of such size and number as required properly to operate the boat or craft. While a boat or craft is on the water each occupant shall properly wear a life jacket at all times.

No boat or craft may be used in racing or practicing therefor on park waters, except at such hours on such days as the City may from time to time specially designate therefor, and no boat shall be operated in such a manner as to endanger the lives or property of others.

(History: Ord. PR-763 §14, 73)

Effective on: 1/1/1901