AB 90

Under current law, no person may operate a motorboat in excess of slow-no-

wake speed within 100 feet of buoyed restricted areas or structures such as piers.

Current law defines "motorboat" to include personal watercraft. Current law

imposes an additional slow-no-wake restriction on the operation of personal

watercraft by prohibiting operation within 200 feet of the shoreline of a lake. Under

current law, there is no slow-no-wake restriction for other motorboats within a given

distance of a shoreline. This bill imposes a slow-no-wake restriction of 100 feet from

the shoreline for motorboats that are not personal watercraft.

Under current law, cities, towns, villages, public inland lake protection and

rehabilitation districts, and town sanitary districts (local governmental units) may

enact local boating ordinances but the ordinances may not be inconsistent with state

law. The bill provides an exception from this general requirement by allowing a local

governmental unit to enact an ordinance exempting motorboats from the 100-foot

restriction created in this bill.

Current law exempts from these restrictions pickup and drop areas for personal

watercraft and motorboats and persons involved in water skiing. These exemptions

apply to this new provision.