Section 45-AAA. Special provisions relating to speed on Irondequoit bay  


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      No vessel shall be operated on Irondequoit bay, which is located  within
      Monroe  county,  at  a speed exceeding twenty-five miles per hour unless
      such vessel is being operated for  the  purpose  of  enabling  a  person
      engaged  in water skiing or other water sport to be towed, in which case
      no such vessel shall be operated at a speed exceeding thirty-five  miles
      per hour.
        2.  No vessel shall be operated in the channel between Irondequoit Bay
      and Lake Ontario or within three hundred feet of the shore, the channel,
      a dock, pier, raft or float or an anchored or moored vessel in a  manner
      or  at  a  speed that causes a wake that unreasonably interferes with or
      endangers such dock, pier, raft or float or an anchored or moored vessel
      but in no event at a speed exceeding five miles per hour, unless for the
      purpose of enabling a person engaged in water  skiing  to  take  off  or
      land.
        3.  The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not apply to any vessel
      competing in or practicing for a regatta or boat race over  a  specified
      course held by a bona fide club or racing association, provided that due
      written notice of the date of the race has been given to the appropriate
      law  enforcement  agency  at  least  fifteen  days  prior  to such race,
      pursuant to the provisions of section thirty-four of this  chapter,  and
      all provisions of this section have been complied with.
        4.  Any  person  who  operates  a  vessel  in  violation of any of the
      provisions of this section shall be guilty of a violation punishable  as
      set forth in section seventy-three-c of this article.
        5.  Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting any town
      or county from continuing, adopting or enacting any  other  local  laws,
      resolutions  or  ordinances related to persons operating a vessel within
      its limits, but no such municipality shall have the power to  make  less
      restrictive any of such provisions.