2014 Virginia Code
Title 29.1 - Game, Inland Fisheries and Boating
§ 29.1-748.1. Minimum distance from shoreline; local ordinances; penalty
The City of Virginia Beach may, by ordinance, regulate in any portion of a waterway located solely within its territorial limits, the minimum distance that personal watercraft may be operated from the shoreline in excess of the slowest possible speed required to maintain steerage and headway. Such ordinance shall provide for distances of 100 feet from the shoreline and 200 feet from swimmers in ocean waters, and shall provide for local enforcement and penalties not exceeding those applicable to Class 4 misdemeanors. Nothing in this section prohibits access to and from waters where operation is not otherwise restricted.
2003, c. 117; 2007, c. 813.
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