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A. No person shall operate or permit to be operated any vessel when used on the waters of the city of Everett which are governed by the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, (72 COLREGS), Title 33, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 81-72, Appendix A, unless it shall be equipped with the navigation lights and shapes and sound and light signals as required by such international rules and the COLREGS implementing rules, Title 33, Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 81-72 and 82-72, and by WAC 352-60-060.

B. The requirements in this section shall be complied with in all weathers. The requirements concerning lights shall be complied with from sunset to sunrise, and during such times no other lights shall be exhibited, except such lights as cannot be mistaken for lights specified by the United States Coast Guard, or do not impair their visibility or distinctive character, or interfere with the keeping of a proper lookout.

C. The lights herein prescribed shall, if carried, also be exhibited from sunrise to sunset in restricted visibility and may be exhibited in all other circumstances when it is deemed necessary.

D. The requirements concerning shapes shall be complied with by day.

E. Any operator or owner who endangers a vessel or the persons on board the vessel by showing, masking, extinguishing, altering, or removing any light or signal or by exhibiting any false light or signal is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by up to ninety days in jail and by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars. (Ord. 3135-09 § 6, 2009; Ord. 1246-86 § 1, 1986.)