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AN ORDINANCE TO BE ENTITLEI3-,.7j
AN_ORDINANCE PROTECTING THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND
PQLIC HEALTH, REGULATING THE USE AND OPERATION
OF BOATS AND SKIFFS OF ANY AND ALL KINDS ON LAKE
WORTH, AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION
'OF SUCH REGULATIONS.
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Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any corporation,
association, firm or person to use or operate or ride in
any boat or boats, skiff or skiffs of any kind or character
on the waters of Lake Worth except as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. Before any corporation, association, firm or
person shall use or operate or travel in any boat or boats,
skiff or skiffs on the waters of Lake Worth, it shall first
be necessary for owners or users of said boat or boats, skiff
omit __ .or skiffs to obtain a permit from the Board of Commissioners
of the City of Fort Worth, authorizing the use of such boat
or boats, skiff or skiffs, on the waters of Lake Forth, and
a permit granted for the operation of such boats or skiffs
after inspection.
Sec. 3. And provided further that said boats or skiffs
shall not be operated or used on the waters of Lake Worth
unless they be anchored and docked at such place or places
as may be designated and required by the Board of Commissioners
of the City of Fort Worth.
Sec. 4. And provided further that said boats and skiffs
ThsT _be equipped and sul5pMed with a life preserver of such
kind and quality as may be required by the Board of Com-
Missioners of the City of Fort Worth, and no greater number
of persons shall be permitted to ride or enter said boats than
there are life preservers for their use and protection.
Sec. 5. Provided further, that the Board of Commis-
sioners of said city shall adopt charges and fees for the
use of the waters of said Lake by said boats and skiffs,
and no permit shall issue until said fees and charges have
been paid.
Sec. 6. Provided further that said Board of Com-
missioners shall have the right to adopt all other such
rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary for the
safety of the users of said boats and skiffs, and in the
protection of the waters of said Lake, and in the con-
servation of the public revenues of said city, and after
the adoption of said rules and regulations and notice thereof
to the users of said boats or skiffs, it shall be unlawful
W* for any such users to violate any of said rules and
regulations so adopted, and may further subject such
violations to a revocation of their permit to operate same
on said Lake.
Sao. 7. Any corporation, association, firm or
individual violating any of the several provisions of this
Act above set forth shall be fined in any sum not less than
Five Dollars 35.00) and not more than One Hundred (0100.00)
Dollars, and each and every act in violation of the provisicns
above set forth shall be, and same will constitute a separate
offense.
Sec. S. This ordinance shall be in force and take
4 effect from-an& after its adopt�ttn and publication as
� required by—lax.
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w I hereby certify that the above and fore-goi �—`Jrrdinances duly
presented and unanimously passed and adopted by the Board of
Commissioners of the its- o or, Torth Texas at a regular session
of said Board held +ea,4 I9I7..' *W�
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