[Amended 4-28-2005 by L.L. No. 7-2005; 5-11-2021 by L.L. No. 7-2021]
The boundaries of the Sag Harbor Management Area include all waters and intertidal areas as described on Harbor Management Chart Number One. Channels, buffer areas, mooring areas, anchoring areas, turning basins, fairways, recreational and swimming areas are hereby established in Sag Harbor as shown on the Harbor Management Chart.
A. 
Dangerous operation prohibited. No person shall operate a vessel at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent, including, without limitation, the throwing of its wake, so as not to:
(1) 
Endanger the life or limb of another person using the harbor under the conditions and having regard to the actual and potential hazards then existing.
(2) 
Disturb the reasonable comfort or endanger person on or operating another vessel or cause damage to another vessel, structure, shoreline property, the environment, or interfere with the free and proper use of the waters of any channel.
B. 
Use of power. No person shall operate any vessel having mechanical power without using such power while entering or leaving the harbor management area between the breakwater and 1,200 feet west of the eastern buttress of the State Highway 114 bridge.
C. 
Speed of vessels.
[Amended 4-28-2005 by L.L. No. 7-2005]
(1) 
No person shall operate any vessel at a speed in excess of that posted by speed markers. The Village Board of Trustees may, from time to time, by resolution, establish speed limits for any portion or portions of waters or waterways subject to this chapter and provide for the posting of speed markers.
(2) 
No person shall operate a vessel at speeds greater than five miles per hour within 200 feet of the shoreline west of the breakwater and within 500 feet of the shoreline east of the breakwater to the eastern boundary of the Village of Sag Harbor or within 50 feet of swimmers, bathing floats or lifelines.
(3) 
No person shall operate a vessel in any area where there is congestion of vessels, either underway or at anchor, at a speed in excess of five miles per hour.
(4) 
The Village Board of Trustees may, by resolution, from time to time and for periods stated in such resolution, suspend the enforcement of this section with respect to any portion or portions of waters or waterways and designate such areas by the location of appropriate speed markers.
(5) 
No person shall operate a vessel at speeds greater than five miles per hour:
[Added 6-12-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
(a) 
Within Outer Sag Harbor Cove and the Harbor Management Area, running west from the eastern buttress of the State Highway 114 bridge and to the western end of the Big Narrows before entering Upper Sag Harbor Cove. Within Outer Sag Harbor Cove, the Harbor Management Area extends from mean high water to a line of equal distance between the Village of Sag Harbor and either the Village of North Haven or the Town of Southampton, depending on which shoreline is opposite the Sag Harbor shoreline at a given point. The western end of the Big Narrows terminates at a line drawn between 40° 59' 57.00" N; 72° 18' 56.50" W and 40° 59' 56.00" N; 72° 18' 54.75" W.
(b) 
Within the waters of Upper Sag Harbor Cove and Morris Cove. This includes all of the area west of a line drawn between 40° 59' 37.00" N; 72° 18' 47.00" W and 40° 59' 33.50" N; 72° 18' 42.25" W, and includes all waters seaward of mean high water.
(c) 
The boundaries of each of said speed zones shall be as shown on the duly adopted Harbor Management Chart, which is annexed to this subsection and is hereby declared to be a part of this chapter.
[Amended 5-11-2021 by L.L. No. 7-2021]
D. 
Operation of vessels in proximity to swimmers. No boat propelled other than by hand shall cruise or be operated within 50 feet of any lifeline or bathing float or, if there is no lifeline or bathing float, within 50 feet of any swimming area. Any such boat shall not cruise or be operated in excess of five miles per hour within 50 feet of any person bathing or swimming or of an anchored or moored boat, except when being used to effect a rescue or to render assistance to prevent harm to a person or damage to property.
[Amended 4-28-2005 by L.L. No. 7-2005]
E. 
Identification. Vessel operators shall, at all times, identify themselves and produce the vessel's registration to Village, state or federal law enforcement authorities upon request. Failure to produce such registration upon request shall be presumptive evidence of a violation of this section.
F. 
Required equipment. No person shall operate a vessel which does not meet all duly adopted and published requirements of the Navigation Law with regard to safety equipment to be carried on or incorporated into vessels of its type.
[Amended 9-7-1999 by L.L. No. 6-1999; 6-6-2000 by L.L. No. 3-2000; 5-11-2021 by L.L. No. 7-2021]
A. 
No person shall take off or land any aircraft within the Harbor Management Area of the Village of Sag Harbor whether on the water directly or on any structure floating on the water, such as a floating dock.
B. 
No person shall taxi or otherwise operate an aircraft within the Harbor Management Area, with the exception of that area of the Outer Management Area beyond 1,500 feet from shore, where taxiing and mooring of aircraft is permitted.
[Amended 1-10-2012 by L.L. No. 1-2012]
A. 
No person shall tie up or berth a vessel at a Village-owned dock or bulkhead within the Village unless a slip rental or wharfage fee has been paid to the Village for use and occupancy of such space by such vessel. Any person who fails to move such vessel when ordered by the Village Police Department, Harbor Master or any lawful enforcing authority shall be in violation of this chapter. Each day that the violation continues shall constitute a separate additional violation.
B. 
No person shall secure a vessel to a mooring within the Inner Harbor Mooring Area as depicted on Harbor Management Chart Number 2 unless both the vessel and the mooring ball have valid Village of Sag Harbor Marine Department permit stickers secured to them. The number on the vessel sticker must match the mooring sticker number. Vessel stickers shall not be required in the Outer Management Area, but all mooring balls must have valid Village of Sag Harbor Marine Department permit stickers secured to them.
[Amended 5-11-2021 by L.L. No. 7-2021]
C. 
Any vessel that is assigned a location on the Village of Sag Harbor Dinghy Dock must have a valid Village of Sag Harbor Marine Department sticker secured to it.
D. 
No person shall store a boat at Haven's Beach unless the vessel has a current permit sticker issued by the Village of Sag Harbor.
A. 
No person shall skin dive with any type of diving equipment within any channel, nor shall any person bathe or swim in any channel designated on the chart, except in the course of a rescue or similar emergency.
B. 
No person shall skin dive or use self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) in the harbor management area unless a regulation red diving flag is displayed in accordance with the Navigation Law nor shall any person allow or permit such diving flag to remain in any area unless a person is actually skin diving in the area while such flag is displayed.
C. 
No person shall operate a vessel within 50 feet of any area marked for skin diving by the placement of a regulation red diving flag.
No person shall discharge any apparatus designed for use in spearfishing within 200 feet of any lifelines or bathing float nor within 200 feet of any public or other beach regularly used for bathing or swimming nor within 50 feet of any person bathing or swimming.
[Amended 4-28-2005 by L.L. No. 7-2005; 5-11-2021 by L.L. No. 7-2021]
The dumping or discharge of petroleum products, refuse or garbage into Village waters is prohibited.
[Added 7-13-2004 by L.L. No. 4-2004]
A. 
The waters within the entire Harbor Management Area are designated as "No-Discharge Zones."
[Amended 5-11-2021 by L.L. No. 7-2021]
B. 
Securing of marine sanitation devices; use of pump-out station.
(1) 
Any marine sanitation device on board a vessel being operated in waters designated as a "vessel waste no-discharge zone" must be secured to prevent any discharges to such waters. In accordance with federal regulations, the marine sanitation device shall be secured by closing the seacock and padlocking, using heavy nonresealable tape, using a nonreleasable wire-tie, removing the seacock handle or locking the door to the "head" while such vessel is being operated upon waters within vessel waste no-discharge zones. Use of a padlock, heavy nonresealable tape, wire-tie, or the removal of the valve handle are adequate methods of securing the device. The method chosen shall be one that presents a physical barrier to the use of the valve.
(2) 
If a marine sanitation device on a vessel provides a means of discharging sewage directly to the water, the discharge valve must be secured in a readily visible manner and closed position while the vessel is being operated in a vessel waste no-discharge zone.
(3) 
The provisions requiring marine sanitation devices to be secured and rendered inoperable in vessel waste no-discharge zones shall not apply while the wastes from the marine sanitation device are being lawfully disposed of in an approved marine sanitation device pump-out or dump station, or pump-out boat located within a vessel waste no-discharge zone.
C. 
Inspections. Any vessel being operated upon a water body of the Village of Sag Harbor that has been designated as a vessel waste no-discharge zone may be boarded and inspected by the Village Harbor Master, police officer or any other lawfully designated agents acting pursuant to their special duties for the purposes of determining whether such vessel is being operated in compliance with this chapter.
D. 
The Village Board shall establish procedures for the enforcement of Village "No-Discharge Zones," which shall include the regulation of grey water discharge, and shall also establish a schedule for vessel inspections to confirm compliance with the No-Discharge Zone.
[Added 5-11-2021 by L.L. No. 7-2021]
Nothing herein contained shall prohibit the Village Board of Trustees from issuing special permits for aquatic events or vessel races under proper supervision in limited areas and for limited periods of time.