1. “Darkness” means that period between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise.

2. “Float” means any anchored manmade structure unattached to the shore where any vessel may dock.

3. “Idling speed” means that speed of any motorboat while underway resulting while its propulsion machinery is set at the machine’s slowest possible speed.

4. “Length” as it refers to vessels means the overall distance measured in a straight line parallel to the center line from the foremost part of the vessel to the aftermost part of the vessel, excluding bowsprits, bumpkins, rudders, outboard motors and brackets and similar fittings and attachments.

5. “Motorboat” means any vessel underway under propulsion in whole or in part by machinery. “Motorboat” includes sea planes while taxiing and/or while otherwise not subject to any valid state or federal law or regulation governing the operation of sea planes.

6. “Operator” means any natural person in actual physical control of any vessel.

7. “Person” means any natural person, partnership, association, corporation or organization.

8. “Race-type boat” means any motorboat operated at a speed in excess of thirty-five miles per hour.

9. “Rowboat” means any vessel underway under propulsion in whole manually.

10. “Sailboat”. Any vessel underway under propulsion in whole by sail, or in part by sail and in part manually, shall be considered a sailboat.

11. “Safety buoy” means any buoy established as provided in this chapter and constructed to conform to the State Uniform Waterway Marking System.

12. “Safety buoy line” means the straight line between any two safety buoys or the straight line between any safety buoy and the point on the shoreline closest to such safety buoys.

13. “Police” means the chief of police or the chief’s designee.

14. “Shoreline” means the land bordering any existing body of water.

15. “Vessel” means every description of watercraft used or capable of being used as a means of transportation.

16. “Visible,” as it refers to the hours of darkness, means capable of being seen on a dark night with a clear atmosphere; as it refers to the daytime hours, means capable of being seen on a dull day with the atmosphere clear of fog, haze or rain.

17. “Water ski” means to plane over the water with or without any floating device while being towed by any vessel. The term shall include water skiing, free boarding, aquaplaning and similar devices and/or activities.

18. “Wharf” means any manmade structure attached to the shore where any vessel may dock. (Ord. 1183-85 § 1, 1985.)