30.70 – Skin diving.
30.70 Skin diving. No person may engage in underwater diving or swimming with the use of swimming fins or skin diving in waters other than marked swimming areas or within 150 feet of shoreline, and no person may engage in underwater diving or swimming with the use of self-contained underwater breathing apparatus in waters other […]
30.71 – Disposal of waste from boats equipped with toilets.
30.71 Disposal of waste from boats equipped with toilets. (1) In this section, “outlying waters” has the meaning given in s. 29.001 (63). (2) No person may, while maintaining or operating any boat equipped with toilets on the waters of this state, dispose of any toilet wastes in any manner into the water. (3) No […]
30.72 – Watercraft use rules, Lower St. Croix River.
30.72 Watercraft use rules, Lower St. Croix River. (1) Water surface use rules. (a) The department shall promulgate rules to govern the operation of boats on the Lower St. Croix River. The rules may restrict any or all of the following: 1. The type of boats which may be used on the waters affected by […]
30.73 – Use regulations, Brule River.
30.73 Use regulations, Brule River. (1) Prohibited uses. No person may operate, occupy or use any motorboat or any pneumatic inner tube, inflatable raft or similar device on the Brule River or any of its stream tributaries in Douglas County. This subsection does not prohibit a person from operating, occupying or using a noninflatable nonmotorized […]
30.63 – Sale and use of certain outboard motors restricted.
30.63 Sale and use of certain outboard motors restricted. (1) Sale. No person may sell any new outboard motor for use in the waters of this state unless such motor is equipped with a crankcase effectively sealed to prevent the drainage of raw fuel into the waters in which the motor is operated. (2) Use. […]
30.635 – Motorboat prohibition.
30.635 Motorboat prohibition. On lakes 50 acres or less having public access, motorboats may not be operated in excess of slow-no-wake speed, except when such lakes serve as thoroughfares between 2 or more navigable lakes. The department by rule may modify or waive the requirements of this section as to particular lakes, if it finds […]
30.64 – Patrol boats.
30.64 Patrol boats. (1) The operator of a patrol boat, including a commission warden, as defined in s. 939.22 (5), when responding to an emergency call or when in pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, need not comply with this subchapter or ordinances under s. 30.77 when a siren or emergency […]
30.65 – Traffic rules.
30.65 Traffic rules. (1) Meeting; overtaking; right-of-way. Every person operating a boat shall comply with the following traffic rules, except when deviation therefrom is necessary to comply with federal pilot rules while operating on the navigable waters of the United States: (a) When 2 motorboats are approaching each other “head and head,” or so nearly […]
30.66 – Speed restrictions.
30.66 Speed restrictions. (1) Speed to be reasonable and prudent. No person shall operate a motorboat at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and having regard for the actual and potential hazards then existing. The speed of a motorboat shall be so controlled as to avoid colliding with any object […]
30.67 – Accidents and accident reports.
30.67 Accidents and accident reports. (1) Duty to render aid. Insofar as the operator of a boat can do so without serious danger to the operator’s boat or to persons on board, the operator of a boat involved in a boating accident shall stop the operator’s boat and render to other persons affected thereby such […]