12.04.105 Moorage restrictions.
It is unlawful for any owner, operator or person having charge, care or control of any vessel, watercraft, or any other floating craft or contrivance to anchor, moor, beach, ground or otherwise secure such vessel, watercraft or other floating craft or contrivance, or to allow such vessel, watercraft or other floating craft or contrivance to continue to be moored, anchored, beached or otherwise secured, to the bed or shoreline of any waters or to any shoreline structure, or to do so within a one-mile radius of the original anchorage or moorage, for a period longer than 24 hours except under the following specific conditions:
A. Where moored to a public pier, buoy or float, specifically intended for public use, in a manner consistent with any posted regulations displayed on-site or any applicable laws, rules or regulations of the public agency with jurisdiction over use of such public property; or
B. Where moored to a private pier with the permission of the owner or lessee of the real property to which the pier is attached; provided, that the vessel, watercraft or other floating craft or contrivance so moored shall remain within the legal property waterline or the established boundaries as defined by the appropriate government agency; or
C. Where authorized or directed in writing by the United States Army Corps of Engineers or the United States Coast Guard to anchor, moor or otherwise locate in a specific area so designated by the federal agency for that particular purpose; or
D. Where owned, leased or under the control of licensed and bonded marine contractors and moored and working at the site of a construction project which has received all necessary federal, state and local permits, approvals and licenses; or
E. Where anchorage or moorage is necessary because of an emergency situation created by an immediate threat to life, the craft and/or the property of others. (Ord. 2824 § 1, 1980.)