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Article 4 - VESSELS
Part 1 - (40 - 49-C) VESSELS, GENERAL
45-AAAA - Special provisions relating to reckless operation and speed on Greenwood Lake.

* § 45-aaaa. Special  provisions  relating  to  reckless operation and
  speed on Greenwood Lake. 1. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
  chapter or  any  inconsistent  local  laws  (a)  every  pleasure  vessel
  operated  on Greenwood Lake within Orange county, 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 fifteen 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.
    * NB There are 2 § 45-aaaa's

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