GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

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HOUSE BILL 626
Committee Substitute Favorable 7/15/98

Short Title:  Carteret/New Hanover No-Wake Zones.	(Local)

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March 26, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH NO-WAKE ZONES IN THE TOWNS OF MOREHEAD CITY AND CEDAR POINT IN CARTERET COUNTY AND WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  It is unlawful to operate a vessel at greater than no-wake speed in the waters of Spooners Creek in the Town of Morehead City in Carteret County.  No-wake speed is idle speed or a slow speed creating no appreciable wake.
Section 2.  It is unlawful to operate a vessel at greater than no-wake speed in that portion of the waters adjacent to the Town of Cedar Point in Carteret County from Daybeacon 44 south along the intracoastal waterway to Daybeacon 46B.  No-wake speed is idle speed or a slow speed creating no appreciable wake.
Section 3.  It is unlawful to operate a vessel at greater than no-wake speed in the waters of Lee's Cut in the Town of Wrightsville Beach in New Hanover County.  No-wake speed is idle speed or a slow speed creating no appreciable wake.
Section 4.  The Towns of Morehead City, Cedar Point, and Wrightsville Beach or their designees, may place and maintain markers in accordance with the Uniform Waterway Marking System and any supplementary standards for that system adopted by the Wildlife Resources Commission.  All markers of the no-wake speed zones shall be buoys or floating signs placed in the water and shall be in sufficient number and size to give adequate warning of the no-wake speed zone to vessels approaching from various directions.
Section 5.  Violation of this act is a Class 3 misdemeanor.
Section 6.  This act is enforceable under G.S. 75A-17 as if it were a provision of Chapter 75A of the General Statutes.
Section 7.  This act is effective when it becomes law, and each no-wake zone established in this act is enforceable  after markers complying with Section 4 of this act are placed in the water to mark that no-wake zone.