Redondo Beach Municipal Code Art. 3 General Regulations

Any persons using the facilities within the limits of the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility shall assume all risk of damage or loss to their property. The City shall not be liable to any person as a result of fire, theft, act of God, or damage of any kind to vessels within the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

(a) No person shall launch into or remove from the waters of the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility any vessel weighing more than 200 pounds, except at specific locations designated by the Harbor Master for the purpose of launching and recovering vessels or in accordance with a permit issued by the Harbor Master. The foregoing shall not apply to watercraft regularly used by a larger vessel for the transportation of persons or property to or from shore.

(b) No person shall launch or recover any vessel or watercraft nor embark or disembark at, over, or across the rock riprap of the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility, except at specific locations designated by the Harbor Master for the purpose of launching and recovering vessels or in accordance with a written permit issued by the Harbor Master.

(c) No person shall moor any vessel within the harbor without a permit from the Harbor Master. Such permit, except a permit for a visiting vessel, shall include a declaration from the owner that the harbor is the situs for his vessel for the purposes of levying personal property taxes on such vessel by the City.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by §§ 1 and 2, Ord. 2217 c.s., eff. October 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

All permits granted under the authority of this chapter shall be valid for such period as may be determined by the Director. A violation of the provisions of this chapter by any permittee shall be grounds for the suspension or revocation of such permits.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

All stray vessels and all property or other articles not in the lawful possession or control of some person found within the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility shall immediately be delivered to the Police Department or the Harbor Master. Any such property shall be dealt with by the police or Harbor Patrol as provided in the appropriate provisions of the Civil code of the State and/or the Harbors and Navigation Code of the State as the same now read or may hereafter be amended. The owner of any found property shall be liable for any costs incurred by the City in effecting the removal, storage, sale, or disposition of such property.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

It shall be unlawful willfully or carelessly to destroy, damage, disturb, deface, or interfere with any aid to navigation or mooring buoy, float, life preserver, sign, signal, notice, control device, or any other public or private property whatsoever within the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

No person shall willfully injure, break, remove, or tamper with any part of any vessel in the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility, nor shall a person climb in to or upon any vessel without the consent of the owner, unless in the performance of official duties, or to protect life and/or property.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

It shall be unlawful at any time for a person to obstruct the free and easy access to and departure from any portion of any landing, pier, berth, float, wharf, or other facility of the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

It shall be unlawful for any person, other than a person specifically authorized by permit, license, or lease from the City, or a lessee of the City, to camp, lodge, sleep, or tarry overnight upon any portion of the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility or to erect, maintain, use, or occupy any tent, lodge, shelter, structure, house trailer, trailer coach, or conveyance used as a place of abode.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

The Director may place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, either on land or water, such signs, notices, signals, buoys, or control devices as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter or to insure the public safety and the orderly and efficient use of the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

It shall be unlawful to fail to obey any sign, notice, signal, buoy, or control device placed or erected pursuant to the provisions of Section 12-1.309 of this article.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

A person having charge of a vessel shall not permit the debarkation of passengers or the off loading of cargo onto any public or privately-owned bulkhead, float, wharf, pier, dock, or other structure within the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility or onto another vessel without the consent of the person in charge of such structure or vessel, except in an emergency.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

Within the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility, the Director may establish protected swimming areas, and it shall be unlawful to operate or navigate any vessel within the bounds of any such area, except as may be specifically permitted by other provisions of this chapter.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

(a) The Harbor Master shall keep an accurate record of the number, size, type, and description of all vessels within the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility, and it shall be unlawful for any person having knowledge thereof to fail or refuse to provide any such information to the Harbor Master on demand. All operators of mooring facilities within the harbor shall at all times assist the Harbor Master in identifying vessels which are properly authorized to be moored within the harbor.

(b) The Harbor Master shall also issue to all persons mooring any vessel within the harbor, except visiting vessels, a permit which shall also contain a declaration from the owners that the harbor is the situs of their vessel for the purposes of levying personal property taxes of such vessel by the City. All operators of mooring facilities within the harbor shall inform all persons mooring vessels, including those persons mooring vessels on and after September 6, 1977, of their responsibility to obtain such permit from the Harbor Master and that any person failing to obtain such permit shall be subject to eviction from the harbor, regardless of tenant status.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 3, Ord. 2217 c.s., eff. October 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in skin diving or underwater diving requiring apparatus for underwater breathing or to engage in any other underwater activity requiring such breathing apparatus in the harbor, waterway, or maritime facility without first having obtained a permit from the Harbor Master authorizing such diving or underwater activity. The Diver's Flag must be displayed during diving activities.

(b) The Harbor Master may require, when a person is engaged in an authorized underwater diving activity, that there be present an attendant not less than 16 years of age who shall be on the surface of the water close over the person engaged in the underwater activity, and such attendant shall conspicuously display The Divers Flag during underwater activities.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

(a) No person shall swim or bathe in any portion of the harbor, except within an area designated for such activity pursuant to the provisions of Section 12-1.312 of this article.

(b) No person shall fish in any portion of the harbor, except in those areas designated for such activity by the Director and posted accordingly. All fishing from any pier or wharf shall be subject to the following conditions:

(1) No overhead casting shall be permitted at any time; and

(2) No individual shall occupy more than two fishing positions or have more than two fishing lines in the water at any one time.

(c) No person shall float or place any surfboard, surfmat, boogie board, inner tube, or similar floatation device not specifically designed as a watercraft upon the waters of the harbor.

(d) No person shall operate any non-motorized surfboard-like vessel of any length, propelled solely by a sail and with a mast which is required to be held upright by the operator to sail, within the harbor.

(e) It shall be unlawful for any person to climb, walk, run, skateboard or otherwise engage in any similar conduct or activity on any splashwall within King Harbor.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2511 c.s., eff. September 15, 1988, § 1 Ord. 2562 c.s., eff. November 16, 1989, and § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)

(a) The lessee of any premises within the harbor or a maritime facility at which privately-owned vessels are regularly or occasionally berthed, moored, or stored shall take, or cause to take, all reasonable precautions to assure the safekeeping of such vessels at all times.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to board any privately-owned vessel while such vessel is berthed, moored, or stored within the harbor or maritime facility for the purpose of conducting thereon any maintenance, service, or repair for compensation, unless such person shall have first complied with all the registration and identification procedures as may from time to time be established by the authorized operator at the facility at which the vessel is berthed, moored or stored. The Harbor Master or other designated person may required written or other satisfactory evidence that such person has been authorized thereon by the owner of such vessel.

(c) The provisions of subsection (b) of this section shall not be deemed to apply to the owners of any vessel, to members of their immediate family, to regular employees of the facility or premises on which such vessel is located, or to any person boarding any privately-owned vessel for the purpose of performing maintenance, service, or repair thereon or thereto without compensation.

(§ 5, Ord. 2192 c.s., eff. April 6, 1977, as amended by § 1, Ord. 2815 c.s., eff. April 23, 1998)