Chapter 11.12 B. Any engaged in towing a person on , aquaplane or similar device LOCAL AND WATER must conform to all sections of this title and, SAFETY REGULATIONS in addition, must operate in a counter- clockwise pattern. There shall be no water Sections: , aquaplaning or similar sport in the 11.12.010 , shore zone. regulations. C. No water skiing, aquaplaning or 11.12.020 Water skiing. similar sport shall be permitted on the water 11.12.030 Shore zone. of Browns Lake in the town between two 11.12.040 Speed limits and racing. p.m. and four p.m. on legal holidays 11.12.050 Hours of operation. recognized by the state and Sundays. This 11.12.060 Littering. section shall apply only during the period 11.12.070 Underage operators-- from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Absolute sobriety required. (Prior code § 20.07) 11.12.080 Underage persons-- Possession of intoxicants in . 11.12.030 Shore zone. 11.12.090 Boat launch fees. A. A shore zone is established for 11.12.100 Marking of ice Browns Lake and Bohners Lake as follows: shanties. The shore zone for Browns Lake and 11.12.110 Aircraft. Bohners Lake embraces all that surface water toward the inland side of the slow-no- 11.12.010 Swimming, snorkeling wake buoys. regulations. B. No person shall operate a motor A. No person shall swim or snorkel from powered boat at more than the “slow-no- any boat beyond the no-wake zone, unless wake” speed within the shore zone of such boat is anchored and attended by an Browns Lake or Bohners Lake. (Prior code § observer inside the boat and the swimmers 20.05) or snorkelers stay within twenty-five (25) feet of the boat. 11.12.040 Speed limits and racing. B. No person shall swim or snorkel A. No person shall operate a motorboat beyond the shore zone or within any zone on Browns Lake or Bohners Lake in a designated for drop-off and pickup of water contest of speed or maneuverability unless skiers, nor shall any person do any distance such contest or is authorized by swimming or snorkeling unless he is the town. accompanied by a boat containing a ring B. No person shall operate any boat buoy and occupied by an observer. powered by an engine, or any other boat in C. No person shall swim or snorkel or upon the of Browns Lake at a beyond the shore zone from sunset to speed in excess of fifty (50) miles per hour sunrise. (Ord. dated 6/10/04; prior code § between the hours of ten a.m. and sunset on 20.06) any day of the week or upon the waters of Bohners Lake at a speed in excess of forty 11.12.020 Water skiing. (40) miles per hour between the hours of ten A. No more than two persons shall be a.m. and seven p.m. on any day of the week. towed behind any one motor boat. C. The speed limits set forth in subsection B of this section shall not apply

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to police patrol boats in situations involving more than 0.0 grams but not more than 0.1 emergencies, or while engaged in law grams of alcohol in two hundred ten (210) enforcement, or to boats participating in a liters of that person’s breath. duly authorized race, regatta or water B. In this section: meet duly authorized by permit while 1. “Drive” means the exercise of operating in the designated area authorized physical control over the speed and direction by the permit nor to water safety patrol boats of a motor boat while it is in motion. in situations involving emergencies. 2. “Operate” means the physical D. All motorboats being operated in manipulation or activation of any of the excess of slow-no-wake speed, must be controls of a motor boat necessary to put it operated in a counter-clockwise direction on in motion. (Ord. dated 5/14/90: prior code § Bohners Lake around the perimeter of the 20.03(1)) lake. (Ord. dated 6/26/97: prior code § 20.08) 11.12.080 Underage persons-- Possession of intoxicants in boats. 11.12.050 Hours of operation. No “underaged person,” as that term is A. No person shall operate any defined in Section 125.02(20)(m) of the motorboat upon the waters of Bohners Lake Wisconsin Statutes, may knowingly possess, in the town between seven p.m. and ten a.m. transport, or have under his or her control, on any day of the week at more than slow- any alcohol beverage in any boat unless the no-wake speed. person is employed by a brewer, an alcohol B. No person shall operate any beverage licensee, wholesaler, retailer, motorboat upon the waters of Browns Lake distributor, manufacturer or rectifier and is in the town between sunset and ten a.m. on possessing, transporting or having such any day of the week at more than slow-no- beverage in a boat under his or her control wake speed. (Prior code § 20.09) during his or her working hours and in the course of employment, as provided under 11.12.060 Littering. Section 125.07(4)(b)(m), Wis. Stats. (Ord. No person shall leave, deposit, place or dated 6/11/90: prior code § 20.03(2)) throw in the waterways, ice, shores of waterways or upon any other public or 11.12.090 Boat launch fees. private property adjacent to waterways, any A. Any person, firm or corporation cans, bottles, debris, refuse or other solid launching a boat at the public boat launch on waste material of any kind. Leaves, lawn Bohners Lake shall pay a fee, as established clippings, and other yard waste, shall not be below: intentionally deposited in the lake. (Prior code § 20.10) 1. Daily launch fees: a. Boats less than twenty 11.12.070 Underage operators-- (20) feet: $ 4.00 Absolute sobriety required. b. Boats twenty (20) A. If a person has not attained the age of feet or greater: $ 7.00 twenty-one (21), the person may not drive or 2. Annual fees: operate a motor boat while he or she has a a. Boats less than twenty blood alcohol concentration of more than (20) feet: $40.00 0.0 percent but not more than 0.1 percent by b. Boats twenty (20) weight of alcohol in the person’s blood or feet or greater: $70.00

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B. Residents of the Bohners Lake more than four feet above the level of the sanitary district shall be exempt from the ice. (Prior code § 20.13) launch fee requirements provided that a launch sticker is placed on the boat trailer winch upright beam in plain view. If the 11.12.110 Aircraft. sticker is not placed in plain view, residents A. Aircraft operating on the surface of shall be subject to the above fees, or any any lake in the town shall be subject to all penalty for failure to pay the same. provisions of this title which apply to motor C. Any person who shall violate the boats. provisions of this ordinance shall be subject B. No person shall take off in an to a fine of fifty dollars ($50.00) plus court airplane from the waters of any lake in the costs. town between eleven a.m. and four p.m. on D. The revenues from the launch fees any Sunday from May 1st to October 1st of shall be distributed eighty (80) percent to the each year or on Memorial Day, the Fourth of Bohners Lake sanitary district and twenty July or Labor Day. (Prior code § 20.16) (20) percent to the town. In lieu of actual transfer of monies, the Town shall pay for a 11.12.120 Slow-No-Wake Opt Out. year-round portable toilet at the Lagoon boat Wisconsin State Statute 30.66(3)(ag)(1) launch. (Ord. dated 5/14/15) provides for a slow-no-wake zone within E. The town shall install and maintain a 100 feet of the shoreline of any lake. The secured collection box at the public launch Town of Burlington currently establishes its to accept the daily fees, shall place the fee slow-no-wake zone at 150 feet from the structure and fine schedule in a prominent shoreline of any lake. Therefore, the Town place at the public launch, and shall provide of Burlington does hereby opt out of said envelopes for payment with a receipt for section pursuant to Wisconsin State Statute placement on a vehicle dashboard. In 30.66(3)(ag)(2). addition, the township shall provide annual fee launch stickers and Bohners Lake sanitary district resident stickers at the Town Hall. F. The town police department shall collect the launch fee revenues at the end of each day during regular boating season. The moneys shall be turned over to the town clerk for deposit. (Ord. dated 10/8/98: prior code § 20.30)

11.12.100 Marking of ice fishing shanties. Every ice fishing shanty left standing unattended after sunset on the ice of Browns Lake or Bohners Lake shall be marked by red or orange reflectorized paint at least four inches wide and applied in a continuous strip on all sides not less than two feet nor

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