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Article 4 - VESSELS
Part 1 - (40 - 49-C) VESSELS, GENERAL
45-AAA - Special provisions relating to speed on Irondequoit bay.

§ 45-aaa. Special  provisions relating to speed on Irondequoit bay. 1.
  No vessel shall be operated on Irondequoit bay, which is located  within
  Monroe  county,  at  a speed exceeding twenty-five miles per hour unless
  such vessel is being operated for  the  purpose  of  enabling  a  person
  engaged  in water skiing or other water sport to be towed, in which case
  no such vessel shall be operated at a speed exceeding thirty-five  miles
  per hour.
    2.  No vessel shall be operated in the channel between Irondequoit Bay
  and Lake Ontario or within three hundred feet of the shore, the channel,
  a dock, pier, raft or float or an anchored or moored vessel in a  manner
  or  at  a  speed that causes a wake that unreasonably interferes with or
  endangers such dock, pier, raft or float or an anchored or moored vessel
  but in no event at a speed exceeding five miles per hour, unless for the
  purpose of enabling a person engaged in water  skiing  to  take  off  or
  land.
    3.  The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not apply to any vessel
  competing in or practicing for a regatta or boat race over  a  specified
  course held by a bona fide club or racing association, 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.  Any  person  who  operates  a  vessel  in  violation of any of the
  provisions of this section shall be guilty of a violation punishable  as
  set forth in section seventy-three-c of this article.
    5.  Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting any town
  or county from continuing, adopting or enacting any  other  local  laws,
  resolutions  or  ordinances related to persons operating a vessel within
  its limits, but no such municipality shall have the power to  make  less
  restrictive any of such provisions.

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