GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SESSION LAW 1999-92
HOUSE BILL 649

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A NO-WAKE SPEED ZONE IN HOLDEN BEACH.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  It is unlawful to operate a vessel at greater than a no-wake speed in the Intracoastal Waterway within the Town of Holden Beach between the island area designated as Rogers Street and the eastern line of the L.S. Holden subdivision.  No-wake speed is idle speed or a slow speed creating no appreciable wake.
Section 2.  With regard to marking the no-wake speed zone established in Section 1 of this act, the Town of Holden Beach, Brunswick County, or their designees may place and maintain the markers in accordance with the Uniform Waterway Marking System and any supplementary standards for such system adopted by the Wildlife Resources Commission.  All markers of the no-wake speed zone shall be buoys or floating signs placed in the water and must be sufficient in number and size as to give adequate warning of the no-wake speed zone to the vessels approaching from various directions.
Section 3.  This act is enforceable under G.S. 75A-17 as if it were a provision of Chapter 75A of the General Statutes.
Section 4.  Violation of Section 1 of this act is a Class 3 misdemeanor.
Section 5.  This act applies only to the Town of Holden Beach.
Section 6.  This act is effective when it becomes law and is enforceable after markers complying with Section 2 of this act are placed in the water.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25th day of May, 1999.

s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives