Sec. 6-12. - Fishing, skin-diving, scuba diving, spearfishing, launching of boats and operating vehicles restricted.

(a) For the purposes of this section, a "boat" shall include, but is not limited to, any motor or wind- driven boat or vessel, any jet-ski, inflatable device with an engine of any kind, sailboard, canoe or kayak.

(b) It shall be unlawful to fish from boats, to fish from the beach, to fish from the surf, to swim, to scuba dive, to skin-dive or bring or allow any boat to come within an area of one hundred (100) yards from the outside perimeter of the municipally-owned fishing pier at Dania Beach. It shall also be unlawful to operate any type of boat, vessel or watercraft of any kind within any restricted area as designated by any signs, buoy markers or both, located within a one-hundred-yard distance off-shore as measured at low tide in all beach areas located within the city. It shall also be unlawful to fish or surf cast from any part of the public beach between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. or any day. Additionally, it shall be unlawful to fish from any boat within three hundred (300) yards of the low water mark along the entire beach abutting the Atlantic Ocean in the city.

(c) Snorkeling will be permitted up to a limit of fifty (50) yards into the Atlantic Ocean, measured eastward from the high tide line of all public beach areas, except as stated above. Snorkeling beyond fifty (50) yards off the public beach is prohibited, unless a person is entering the water in the designated diving area at the southernmost end of the public beach or express permission is given by the supervising marine rescue officer. Artificial breathing devices, such as scuba-tanks, aqua-lungs or hooka rigs, when used in the waters of the area known as Dania Beach, are confined to the designated diving area at the southernmost end of Dania Beach, unless express permission to use such devices elsewhere along the beach is obtained from the supervising marine rescue officer. The use of spearfishing guns, gigs, slings, bows, and, polespears on the beach, in the water, or both is prohibited.

(d) It shall be unlawful to launch any type of boat (i.e. including but not limited to canoe, kayak, sailboat, sailboard, jet ski, pleasure craft, boats being used by research or public safety and protection agencies or inflatable with engine) within the municipal beach area, except within a designated launch area.

(e) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle on the beach, unless permission from the city manager or designee has been obtained.

(Code 1971, § 5-9; Ord. No. 2000-027, § 7, 8-8-00; Ord. No. 2006-020, § 1, 6-13-06; Ord. No. 2011-030, § 2, 9-27-11)