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Article 4 - VESSELS
Part 1 - (40 - 49-C) VESSELS, GENERAL
45-AA - Special provisions relating to reckless operation and speed on Canandaigua lake; Keuka lake.

§ 45-aa. Special  provisions  relating to reckless operation and speed
  on Canandaigua lake; Keuka lake. 1. Notwithstanding any other provisions
  of this chapter or any inconsistent local laws (a) every pleasure vessel
  operated on Canandaigua lake, which is bordered  by  Ontario  and  Yates
  counties,  shall  be operated in a careful and prudent manner, in such a
  way as not to unreasonably interfere with or endanger any  other  vessel
  or  person;  a  violation  of  this  paragraph  shall  be  a misdemeanor
  punishable as set forth in section seventy-three-b of this article;  and
  (b)  no  vessel  shall  be  operated  on  such lake at a speed exceeding
  forty-five miles per hour nor shall any pleasure vessel be operated at a
  speed exceeding twenty-five miles per hour between one-half  hour  after
  sunset  and  one-half hour before sunrise; a violation of this paragraph
  shall be a violation punishable as set forth in section  seventy-three-c
  of this article.
    1-a.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provisions  of  this chapter or any
  inconsistent local laws (a) every vessel operated on Keuka  Lake,  which
  is  bordered  by  Steuben  and  Yates  counties,  shall be operated in a
  careful and prudent manner,  in  such  a  way  as  not  to  unreasonably
  interfere  with  or  endanger any other vessel or person; a violation of
  this paragraph shall be a misdemeanor punishable as set forth in section
  seventy-three-b of this article; and (b) no vessel shall be operated  on
  such  lake  at a speed exceeding forty-five miles per hour nor shall any
  vessel be operated at a  speed  exceeding  twenty-five  miles  per  hour
  between  one-half  hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise; a
  violation of this paragraph shall be a violation punishable as set forth
  in section seventy-three-c of this article.
    2. No vessel shall be operated within two hundred feet of the shore, a
  dock, pier, raft or float or an anchored or moored  vessel  at  a  speed
  exceeding five miles per hour, unless such vessel is being operated near
  such  shore,  dock, float, pier, raft or anchored vessel for the purpose
  of enabling a person engaged in water skiing to  take  off  or  land.  A
  violation  of  this  subdivision  shall be a violation punishable as set
  forth in section seventy-three-c of this article.
    3. The provisions of this section shall  not  apply  to  any  pleasure
  vessel  competing  in  or  practicing  for a regatta or boat race over a
  specified course held by a bona fide club or racing association  between
  nine o'clock in the morning and sunset, provided that due written notice
  of  the  date  of  the  race  has  been  given  to  the  appropriate law
  enforcement agency at least fifteen days prior to such race, pursuant to
  the  provisions  of  section  thirty-four  of  this  chapter,  and   all
  provisions of this section have been complied with.
    4. Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting any city,
  town  or  village  from continuing, adopting or enacting any other local
  laws relating to persons operating a pleasure vessel within its  limits,
  but  no  such municipality shall have the power to make less restrictive
  any of such provisions.

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