2 Colo. Code Regs. § 405-2-218

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 1, January 10, 2025

Section 2 CCR 405-2-218 - PROHIBITED OPERATION

1. The term "wake" means a movement of the water created by a boat underway, great enough to disturb a boat at rest, but under no circumstances shall a boat underway exceed five (5) miles per hour while in a posted wakeless area. The term "above a wakeless speed" means operating a vessel at such a speed as to create a wake. No person shall operate any vessel in such a manner as to create a wake when such waters or parts thereof are posted by signs or marked by buoys prohibiting a wake.

2. Persons operating vessels which pass within one hundred fifty feet of any swimming area, moored vessel, person on shore engaged in fishing, or person in a vessel engaged in servicing buoys or markings shall reduce the speed of the vessels in order to prevent the wash or wake of the vessel from causing damage or inconvenience.

3. No person shall operate a motorboat with any person riding or sitting on either the starboard or port gunwales thereof, or on the decking over the bow, or in any other unsafe position, except when the boat is being moored or anchored.

4. No person shall operate or offer for rent any vessel which is overloaded, or unseaworthy, taking into consideration rated capacities, weather, type of construction, and other existing conditions.

5. No person shall operate or anchor a vessel within one hundred fifty feet of any person on shore engaged in fishing, except where narrow passages or coves make such operation restrictions impractical.

2 CCR 405-2-218

37 CR 19, October 10, 2014, effective 11/1/2014

38 CR 07, April 10, 2015, effective 5/1/2015

39 CR 03, February 10, 2016, effective 3/1/2016

39 CR 07, April 10, 2016, effective 5/1/2016