A.
Applicability. The provisions of this article are adopted in the
interest of public health and safety and shall apply to persons, vehicles,
boats and other objects upon, in and under the waters and ice of Lac
La Belle within the jurisdictions of the city, village and town above-named,
which are all such municipalities surrounding, riparian to and having
jurisdiction over such lake.
B.
Enforcement. This article shall be enforced by the officers, employees
and agents of the respective law enforcement agencies of any or all
of the municipalities having jurisdiction over such lake.
B.
Administrative code provisions adopted. All rules and orders created by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, designated "NR," Wis. Adm. Code, modifying or supplementing the provisions adopted in Subsection A above or which may be adopted or made in the future are hereby incorporated in and made a part of this article by reference to the same as if they are or were to be set out herein verbatim.
A.
Generally. Speed of motorboats on Lac La Belle shall not exceed 10
miles per hour between sunset one day and sunrise the following day.
[Added 6-1-1992]
B.
Special limits. No person shall at any time operate a boat in excess
of slow-no-wake in an area from a shore-to-shore line in Lac La Belle,
such line to be parallel to and approximately 1,000 feet north of
the city beach, extending east and west from a point on the shore
of property located at 326 North Lake Road to a point on the shore
of property located at 259 Woodland Lane. The area in which this special
speed limit shall apply lies between the aforementioned line and the
south shore of Lac La Belle and shall include the entire width of
the bay as well as the channel circling the island located at the
southwest corner of such bay.
[Added 5-7-1990]
[Added 5-7-2001]
A.
HIGH WATER
MOTORBOAT
SLOW-NO-WAKE
Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
When the waters of Lac La Belle exceed 2.80 feet measured
at the fourth bay from West Wisconsin Avenue down from the top of
the existing concrete abutment of the Lac La Belle Dam (outlet of
Lac La Belle). This represents an elevation that is eight inches above
normal summer water levels. Upon reaching and/or exceeding this level
for 24 hours, a slow-no-wake condition will automatically be in effect.
The slow-no-wake requirement will automatically be removed when the
elevation is at or below 2.97 feet six inches above normal summer
water levels. Under all other circumstances, either the Mayor of the
City of Oconomowoc, Town Chairman of the Town of Oconomowoc, or Village
President of the Village of Lac La Belle by a two-thirds vote may
make a high water declaration.
[Amended 6-15-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-2; 5-3-2010 by Ord. No.
2010-4]
Has the meaning specified in § 30.50(6), Wis. Stats.
Has the meaning specified in § 30.50(12), Wis.
Stats.
B.
Slow-no-wake speed required. No person shall operate a motorboat
at a speed in excess of slow-no-wake on Lac La Belle for a period
commencing two hours after a high water condition has been declared
until the declaration of a high water condition is repealed.
C.
Notice. Notice of a high water condition shall be posted at the public
launch site and by publication of a notice in both the Oconomowoc
Enterprise and Focus and by public service announcements on radio
and television. The posted notice shall state the time of the declaration
of a high water condition.
