GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1995 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 559

SENATE BILL 1243

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A NO-WAKE ZONE ON A PORTION OF LAKE HICKORY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  It is unlawful to operate a vessel at greater than a no-wake speed in the small cove lying between Gull Cove Lane and Quiet Cove Lane on Lake Hickory in Catawba County.  No-wake speed is idle speed or a slow speed creating no appreciable wake.

Sec. 2.  With regard to marking the no-wake speed zone established in Section 1 of this act, Catawba County or its designee may place and maintain the 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 sufficient in number and size so as to give adequate warning of the no-wake speed zone to vessels approaching from various directions.

Sec. 3.  This act is enforceable under G.S. 75A-17 as if it were a provision of Chapter 75A of the General Statutes.

Sec. 4.  Violation of this act is a Class 3 misdemeanor.

Sec. 5.  This act is effective upon ratification, and is enforceable after markers complying with Section 2 of this act are placed in the water.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of June, 1996.

 

 

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Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

 

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Harold J. Brubaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives