GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	2 

SENATE BILL 84*
House Committee Substitute Favorable 3/17/97

Short Title:  Atlantic Beach No-Wake Zone.	(Local)

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February 11, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A NO-WAKE ZONE WITHIN THE CANALS AND WATERWAYS OF THE EIGHT AND ONE-HALF MARINA CONDOMINIUMS AND THE HOOP POLE CREEK AREA IN THE TOWN OF ATLANTIC BEACH.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  It is unlawful to operate a vessel at greater than no-wake speed in the canals and waterways of 8 1/2 Marina Condominiums and the Hoop Pole Creek Area, located within the town limits of the Town of Atlantic Beach in Carteret County.  No-wake speed is idle speed or a slow speed creating no appreciable wake.
Section 2.  The Town of Atlantic Beach or its designee 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 zone must be buoys or floating signs placed in the water and must be in sufficient number and size to give adequate warning of the no-wake speed zone to vessels approaching from various directions.
Section 3.  Violation of this act is a Class 3 misdemeanor.
Section 4.  This act is enforceable under G.S. 75A-17 as if it were a provision of Chapter 75A of the General Statutes.
Section 5.  This act is effective when it becomes law, and is enforceable after markers complying with Section 2 of this act are placed in the water.