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It shall be unlawful for any person using the borough port and harbor facilities to commit any of the following prohibited acts:

A. To operate, or cause to be operated, any vessel, as defined in this title, within the limits of the borough port and harbor facilities, in excess of three miles per hour. All vessel operators are legally liable for any damages from their wake.

B. To operate, or cause to be operated, any vessel, as defined in this title, within the limits of the borough port and harbor facilities, in a negligent manner in willful and wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.

C. To operate, or cause to be operated, any vessel, as defined in this title, within the limits of the borough port and harbor facilities, in a negligent manner likely to endanger the safety of person or property.

D. To throw or otherwise cause to be deposited gasoline, oil, trash, garbage or refuse on any float or into the water of the borough port and harbor facilities. To use the borough port and harbor refuse containers for nonharbor or nonport use. To create construction or project waste and dispose of it in the harbor refuse containers. Vessel construction and project waste shall be hauled away to a local waste receiver and is the responsibility of the owner and the contractor. The harbormaster is allowed discretion in determining what constitutes construction or project waste.

E. To fail to register with the harbormaster, as provided in HBC 16.20.010.

F. To leave any vessel or floating structure moored at any of the borough port and harbor facilities unattended while any fire is burning thereon. Any such fire shall be deemed unattended unless the owner or operator is within 100 feet of the same.

G. To start or allow to continue any fire on a float or dock.

H. To create and maintain any nuisance within the borough port and harbor facilities.

I. To conduct or carry on any unlawful business or occupation within the limits of the borough port and harbor facilities.

J. To live aboard a vessel moored in the harbor at any time from October 15th to April 1st, except on a transient moorage basis for periods of two weeks or less. For any person or owner in charge of any dog or animal to allow or permit such dog or animal to run at large within the borough port and harbor facilities.

K. To deposit, place or leave any cargo, merchandise, supplies, freight, articles or thing, including fecal matter deposited on docks, upon any float, ramp, walk or other public place in the borough port and harbor facilities, except while loading to or from a boat or vehicle.

L. For any person or owner in charge of any dog or animal to fail to clean up after their animals.

M. To tap, disconnect, interfere with, or tamper with any water outlet, water pipe, water connection, or any electrical wiring, electrical outlet, or electrical device of any kind installed or maintained in the borough port and harbor facilities by the borough without first having obtained the permission of the harbormaster.

N. To leave snow removed from vessels on any dock, float, or finger. To interfere with any wharf, gangplank, ramp or any other facility of the borough port and harbor facilities.

O. To write or post any written or printed matter or sign upon any bulletin board constructed or maintained by the borough without first having obtained the permission of the harbormaster.

P. To erect, place, post or maintain any advertising matter, sign or other printed matter other than legal notices on any part of the borough port and harbor facilities without approval thereof first being obtained from the harbormaster.

Q. To disregard, deface, remove, tamper with or damage any sign or notice posted or erected by the harbormaster or by the direction of the borough assembly relating to the use of mooring areas or other uses of the borough port and harbor facilities.

R. To moor, berth, tie, attach or connect to any part of the Letnikof Cove facility any boat or other waterborne structure without paying the fees or charges prescribed in this title.

S. To verbally abuse, physically assault, or threaten any borough or harbor personnel at any time. For the purposes of this section, “verbal abuse” means “fighting words” as that term is defined under Alaska law, and encompasses oral utterances which would be expected to provoke an immediate violent response in the average reasonable listener. “Verbal abuse” includes, but is not limited to, threatening significant physical harm or threatening or causing significant emotional harm to a person through the use of:

1. Derogatory or inappropriate names, insults, verbal assaults, profanity, or ridicule; or

2. Harassment, coercion, threats, intimidation, humiliation, mental cruelty, or inappropriate sexual comments.

T. To verbally abuse, physically assault, or threaten other harbor users or members of the public while within the borough port and harbor facilities.

U. To refuse to comply with any lawful order of the harbormaster or his representatives.

V. To keep a vessel tarped and covered during the summer months, May 1st through September 1st. All covers must be taken down, including supporting framework, by the first of May each year. Vessels may be covered at any time during the year while actively being repaired. (Ord. 17-03-453 § 6; Ord. 15-03-404 § 4; Ord. 12-08-302 § 5; Ord. 12-01-281 § 4)