Yuba County Municipal Code Ch. 8.53 Englebright Lake

(a) No owner, operator, or person in command of any vessel propelled by machinery shall use it or permit it to be used at a speed in excess of 50 miles per hour, between sunrise and sunset, on any area of the lake which is not already otherwise limited.

(b) No owner, operator, or person in command of any vessel propelled by machinery shall use it or permit it to be used at a speed in excess of 20 miles per hour or at any lesser unsafe speed, between sunset and sunrise.

(c) No owner, operator, or person in command of any vessel propelled by machinery shall use it or permit it to be used at a speed in excess of five miles per hour or at any speed which creates a noticeable wake in any portion of the following areas:

(1) Skipper's Cover Marina and houseboat mooring area;

(2) The north side of the dam, from the west shoreline to the east shoreline;

(3) Hogback Ravine;

(4) Bonanza Cove;

(5) Keystone Cove;

(6) Black's Ravine;

(7) The west end of the lake beginning at Point Defiance, located at the confluence of the Middle Fork and the South Ford of the Yuba River.

The above referenced areas are marked with buoys.

(d) Water skiing, wakeboarding, knee boarding, and/or the towing or puling of any occupied "aqua device" from Boston Bar to the west end of the Lake, and/or from the west end of the lake to Boston Bar, is not permitted.

(e) Vessels in the act of cruising, fishing, or towing a skier or aqua devise shall be operated in a counter-clockwise direction, staying to the right side of the center line of the Lake. Notwithstanding this general regulation, vessels may travel directly across the lake to access the opposite shore. Additionally, vessels may make a U-turn and travel in a clockwise direction when circumstances make such travel necessary, such as when retrieving a fallen skier or retrieving an object that has fallen out of the vessel.

(Prior Code, § 8.53.010; Ord. No. 1315)

Violation of this Chapter shall be an infraction punishable by:

(1) A fine not exceeding $100.00 for a first violation.

(2) A fine not exceeding $200.00 for a second violation of the same provision within one year.

(3) A fine not exceeding $500.00 for each additional violation of the same provision within one year.

(Prior Code, § 8.53.020; Ord. No. 1315)

State Law reference— Penalties for ordinance violations, Government Code § 25132, Penal Code § 19.

If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, provision or portion of this Chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions or provisions of this Chapter or their applicability to distinguishable situations or circumstances. In enacting this Chapter, it is the desire of the Board of Supervisors to validly regulate to the full measure of its legal authority in the public interest, and to that end, the Board of Supervisors declares that it would have adopted this Chapter and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, provision, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or portions thereof might be declared invalid or unconstitutional in whole or in part, as applied to any particular situation or circumstances, and to this end the provisions of this Chapter are intended to be severable.

State Law reference— Similar provisions, Government Code § 23.