HomeMy WebLinkAbout159 - Harbor Master Duties, Term & CompensationORDINANCE N0.159.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF
NEWPORT BEACH PROVIDING
' FOR THE APPOINTM=NT OF A
SUBORDINATE OFFICER IWAND.
I FOR SAID CITY TO BE DESIG-
NATED HARBOR MASTER, DE.
FINING HIS DUTIES; FIXING HIS
TERM OF OFFICE, AND PROVID-
ING FOR HIS COMPENSATION,
AND DECLARING CERTAIN ACTS
TO CONSTITUTE A MISDE-
MEANOR.
The Board of Trustees of the City
iof Newport Beach do ordain as fol-
lows:
(Section 1. The Board of Trustees
shall appoint such a natural person,I
as in their judgment Is competent to
perform th'61duties thereof; as'Harbor
Master, and a subordinate office des-
ignated Harbor Master is hereby cre-
ated In and for said City. The person
appointed shall hold office only during
the pleasure of the Board of Trustees
and shall give such security for the
',faithful performance of his duty and
!receive such compensation as the
Board of Trustees may from time to
time by resolution provide.
Section 2. The words "ship ". or
1 "Shipping" when used in this Ordi-
nance means and includes steamboats,
power boats, sailing vessels, canal
boats, houseboats; barges, and every
(structure adapted to be navigated from
•place to place for the transportation
of merchandise and persons.
Section, 3. It shall be the duty of
,the Harbor Master to obtain, compile,
,file and preserve in his office as the
.property of the City of Newport Beach
accurate information concerning New -
tport Bay, and the waters thereof, for
:all navigation purposes.
i It shall also be the duty of the Har-
Ibor Master, when the same shall have
,been established and designated, by
:the Board of Trustees, to plainly mark
all navigable streams and channels in
the waters of Newport Bay and to des-
ignate and mark mooring places and
anchorage grounds for the mooring
;and anchorage of all ships and ship-
ping.
Section 4. It shall also be the duty ;
'of the Harbor Master to remove or i
cause to be removed from the waters
of Newport Bay all rubbish, abandon-
ed property, and substances accumu-
lating therein by human agency and
which does or might interfere with j
navigation or become unsightly, and
to do such other acts concerning New.
port Bay and the safe and successful
navigation thereof as shall from time
to time be ordered by the Board of
Trustees.
\Section 5. When the navigable
streams and channels in the waters of
Newport Bay shall have been estab-
lished and designated, it shall then
be unlawful and constitute .a misde-
mabnar for any person in charge ofpI
any ship or shipping to moor or an -
chor any ships or shipping therein,
except at an established, designated)
and marked mooring or anchorage.
Section 6. It shall be unlawful a d
constitute a misdemeanor for any per.
. son or persons to throw, deposit or
place In the waters of Newport Bay, t
lor having thrown, deposited or placed]
therein, to leave the same, any rub -1
bish, or other substances or objects
which will or might interfere with -the
safe and free navigation thereof, or
wldch is or may become unsightly.
Any person who shall do any of the -,
things in this ordinance declared to
be unlawful shall . be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof in a court of competent juris-
diction shall be punished by a fine notl
exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00), or by
Imprisonment not exceeding thirty '
(30) days,' or by both such fine and ,
Imprisonment in the discretion of tlie,;
court.
Section 7. That part of any ordi-
Inance of the City of Newport Beach
,which is in conflict with this ordinance
lis hereby repealed.
I Section 8. The above and foregoing
Ordinance shall be published in the
Newport News, a newspaper of gen-
eral circulation, printed and published
in the City of Newport Beach, once,
and shall take effect and be in force
thirty days after its passage.,
This Ordinance No. 159 was passed I
at a regular meeting of the Hoard of
Trustees of the City of Newport Beach
held on. the first day of March. 1920.
by the affirmative vote of the following
named members thereof, and on said
day was signed and •approved by the
President of said Board of Trustees: I
Ayes— Trustees J: P. Greeley, J• J. !
Schnitker, A. L. Heard, J. C. McCain,
L. S. Wilkinson.
Noes —None.
Absent —None.
Attest: M. L. ORCUTT,
Clerk of the'City of Newport Beach.
The above and foregoing Ordinance
No. 159 is hereby approved by me this
1st day of March, 1920.
[Seal] J. P. GREELEY,
President of the Board of Trustees,
;(City of Newport Beach.
I,M.L.Orcutt Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance #159 is a true—and--correct—copy-
- an ordinance passes by the Board of Trustees at a regizlsr- meeting
held on the let. &ay of March 1920, and that same was printed and
published according to law.
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