GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

HOUSE BILL 772
RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A NO-WAKE ZONE IN THE WATERS OF LEE'S CUT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  It is unlawful to operate a vessel at greater than no-wake speed in the waters of Lee's Cut in New Hanover County.  No-wake speed is idle speed or a slow speed creating no appreciable wake.
Section 2.  The municipality or county with jurisdiction over the area of Lee's Cut may place and maintain markers in accordance with the Uniform Waterway Marking System and any supplementary standards for that 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 in sufficient number and size to give adequate warning of the no-wake speed zone to vessels approaching from various directions.
Section 3.  Violation of this act is a Class 3 misdemeanor.
Section 4.  This act is enforceable under G.S. 75A-17 as if it were a provision of Chapter 75A of the General Statutes.
Section 5.  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 to mark the no-wake zone.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 26th day of May, 1999.

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	Dennis A. Wicker
	President of the Senate

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	James B. Black
				eaker of the House of Representatives