A. Equipment Required on All Vessels—Personal Flotation Equipment. All vessels when underway on Silver Lake are required to carry on board in a readily accessible place one personal flotation device per person aboard. Such device shall be of the size and type as is required at the time of operation by the United States Coast Guard for vessels of similar size and equipment operating in inland waters.

B. Equipment Required—Lighting. During hours of darkness, every vessel shall be equipped with and while underway or at anchor at any place other than a dock or shoreline, shall display navigation lights as prescribed in this chapter. Such lights shall be a white light which shall be temporarily exhibited in sufficient time to prevent a collision; provided, that any motorboat while underway shall continuously display a white light distinctly visible for a distance of at least five hundred feet; and provided further, that it shall be deemed a compliance of this section when any vessel displays navigation lights of a type approved by competent authority for operation of such vessel in inland waters.

C. Boating Equipment—Motorboats—Fire Extinguishers. Every motorboat and every boat carrying gas, gasoline or electrical systems shall have on board and in a readily accessible place, a hand portable fire extinguisher, which meets United States Coast Guard standards, appropriate for the extinguishing of such gas, gasoline, oil and grease or electrical fires. Such fire extinguisher shall be in good and serviceable condition.

D. Boating Equipment—Motorboats—Mufflers. Every motorboat equipped with an internal combustion motor shall be equipped with a device so constructed and used as to effectively and adequately muffle the noise of the exhaust of every such internal combustion engine. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to race-type boats operated on any race course approved for that purpose by the park board when such operation is of the dates and hours permitted for the course and all warning signs or markers and safety patrolling requirements for the course are met.

E. Flotation Devices Required for Children Twelve and Under. No person shall operate a vessel under nineteen feet in length on Silver Lake with a child twelve years old and under, unless the child is wearing a personal flotation device that meets or exceeds the United States Coast Guard approval standards of the appropriate size, while the vessel is underway. For the purposes of this section, a personal flotation device is not considered readily accessible for children under twelve years old and under unless the device is worn by the child while the vessel is underway. The personal flotation device must be worn at all times by a child twelve years old and under whenever the vessel is underway and the child is on an open deck or open cockpit of the vessel. The following circumstances are excepted: