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...rloaded, insufficient freeboard for the water conditions in which the vessel is operating; (4) Improper display of navigation lights; (5) Fuel leaks, including fuel leaking from either the engine or the fuel system; (6) Accumulation of or an abnormal amount of fuel in the bilges; (7) Inadequate backfire flame control; (8) Improper ventilation. (D) This section does not apply to any of the following: (1) Foreig...

...mit the operation of a vessel on the waters in this state without maintaining sufficient control to avoid an incident that results in property damage, physical injury, loss of life, or any combination of them.

...rise according to local time within any water between the Dan Beard bridge and the Brent Spence bridge on the Ohio river for any vessel not documented by the United States coast guard as commercial; (c) Within any area buoyed or marked as a no wake area on the waters in this state. (2) Division (B)(1) of this section does not apply in either of the following places: (a) An area designated by the chief of the divis...

...ny vessel in a designated speed zone or water ski zone. No person, unless in distress and no other vessel is endangered thereby, shall moor to, anchor to, or tie up to any marker, aid, buoy, light, or other aid to navigation. No person shall operate or permit to be operated any vessel on the waters in this state in violation of this section.

...llision with persons or property on the waters of this state, due to the operation of any vessel, the operator having knowledge of the accident or collision shall immediately stop the vessel at the scene of the accident or collision, to the extent that it is safe and practical, and shall remain at the scene of the accident or collision until he has given his name and address and, if he is not the owner, the name and ...

...vessel underway or shall manipulate any water skis, aquaplane, or similar device on the waters in this state if, at the time of the operation, control, or manipulation, any of the following applies: (1) The person is under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or a combination of them. (2) The person has a concentration of eight-hundredths of one per cent or more by weight of alcohol per unit volume in the ...

... control of a vessel or manipulates any water skis, aquaplane, or similar device upon any waters in this state shall be deemed to have given consent to a chemical test or tests to determine the alcohol, drug of abuse, controlled substance, metabolite of a controlled substance, or combination content of the person's whole blood, blood serum or plasma, breath, oral fluid, or urine if arrested for operating or being in ...

...permit any vessel to be operated on the waters in this state in violation of this section.

...permit to be operated any vessel on the waters in this state in violation of this section.

...fety of all persons and property on the waters in this state. No person shall operate or permit to be operated any vessel on the waters in this state in violation of this section.

... to, escorting or patrolling special water events, traffic control, salvage, firefighting, medical assistance, assisting disabled vessels, and search and rescue. (B) No person shall operate a vessel at a speed that creates a wake within one hundred feet of a stationary law enforcement vessel displaying at least one flashing, oscillating, or rotating light conforming with 33 C.F.R. 88.11. (C) No...

...(A) Except on the waters of the Ohio River or Lake Erie and immediately connected harbors and bays, any person who rides or attempts to ride upon one or more water skis, surfboard, or similar device, or who engages or attempts to engage in barefoot skiing, and any person who operates a vessel towing a person riding or attempting to ride on one or more water skis, surfboard, or similar device, or engaging or attemptin...

... or attempting to ride upon one or more water skis or upon a surfboard or similar device, or engaging or attempting to engage in barefoot skiing, on the waters in this state shall have present in the vessel a person or persons other than the operator, ten years of age or older, who shall at all times observe the progress of the person being towed. The operator of the towing vessel shall at all times observe the traff...

...rson shall ride or attempt to ride upon water skis, surfboard, or similar device, or engage or attempt to engage in barefoot skiing, or use or operate any vessel to tow any person thereon on the waters in this state during that period of the day between sunset and sunrise, except upon special permit issued by the state department, conservancy district, or political subdivision having jurisdiction and control of such ...

...erson shall engage in any form of towed watersports without wearing an adequate and effective coast guard approved wearable personal flotation device specifically designed for towed watersports, in good and serviceable condition and of appropriate size, except upon special permit issued by one of the following persons or entities that manages the waterway: (1) The political subdivision having primary jurisdiction; ...

...ructure or inclined platform known as a water ski jump on the waters in this state. No person shall use any such platform or structure for the purpose of water ski jumping, except upon special permit issued by the state department, conservancy district, or political subdivision having jurisdiction and control over such water.

...l event. This section does not apply to privately owned lakes or ponds nor to canoes or rowboats.

...erson shall use or offer for use on the waters in this state any inflatable vessel made of canvas, rubber, synthetic rubber, or vinyl plastic unless the inflatable vessel is of multiple air cell or compartment construction and is capable of remaining afloat if one air cell or compartment is punctured or collapsed.

... occupant of any vessel underway on the waters in this state shall sit, stand, or walk upon any portion of the vessel not specifically designed for that movement, except when immediately necessary for the safe and reasonable navigation or operation of the vessel. No operator of a vessel under way on the waters in this state shall allow any occupant of the vessel to sit, stand, or walk on any portion of the vessel und...

...The pilot or engineer of any powercraft for hire to carry passengers shall not permit passengers to come aboard before the engine of such powercraft has been permitted to run for a minimum of two minutes.

...No person shall operate or permit to be operated any vessel under eighteen feet in length while there is present in the vessel any person under ten years of age, not wearing a coast guard approved wearable personal flotation device in good and serviceable condition of appropriate size securely attached to the person under ten years of age.

...than a vessel exempted by rules, on the waters in this state: (1) That is sixteen feet or greater in length without carrying aboard one wearable personal flotation device for each person aboard and one throwable personal flotation device; (2) That is less than sixteen feet in length, including paddlecraft of any length, without carrying aboard one wearable personal flotation device for each person aboard. (B...

...(A) No person shall operate on the waters of Lake Erie or the immediately connecting bays, harbors, and anchorage areas at any time a vessel that is sixteen or more feet in length or any vessel carrying six or fewer passengers for hire without carrying coast guard approved visual distress signals for both day and night use. (B) No person shall operate upon the waters of Lake Erie or the immediately connecting bays, ...

...All watercraft, except sailboats less than sixteen feet long having a cockpit depth of less than twelve inches and except canoes, shall carry an anchor and line of sufficient weight and length to anchor the watercraft securely. The chief of the division of parks and watercraft, by rule, may exempt other types of watercraft from this section after determining that carrying such an anchor and line would constitute a ha...

...operate or permit to be operated on the waters in this state any powercraft that does not comply with this section.