[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 33CFR100.504]

[Page 267-268]
 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
          CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 100--SAFETY OF LIFE ON NAVIGABLE WATERS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 100.504  Night in Venice, Great Egg Harbor Bay, City of Ocean City, NJ.

    (a) Regulated area. The waters of Great Egg Harbor Bay and Beach 
Thorofare from Intracoastal Waterway Light 275 (LLNR 36045) northward 
along the entire width of the Intracoastal Waterway to the 9th Street 
Bridge, thence northeastward along the Ocean City Waterfront to the Long 
Port-Ocean City Bridge, thence northward along the Long Port-Ocean City 
Bridge to the northern shore, thence westward to Ships Channel Buoy 6 
(LLNR 1350), thence southward to Intracoastal Waterway Light 252 (LLNR 
35980), thence southwestward to the 9th Street Bridge.
    (b) Effective period. This regulation will be effective from 4:30 
p.m. to 11:45 p.m. annually on the fourth Saturday in July unless 
otherwise specified in the Coast Guard Local Notice to Mariners and a 
Federal Register Notice.
    (c) Special local regulations. (1) All persons or vessels not 
registered with sponsor as participants or not part of the regatta 
patrol are considered spectators.
    (2) No person or vessel may enter or remain in the regulated area 
unless participating in the event, or authorized to be there by the 
sponsor or Coast Guard patrol personnel.
    (3) Spectator vessels must be at anchor within a designated 
spectator area or moored to a waterfront facility within the regulated 
area prior to the start of the parade in such a way that they shall not 
interfere with mariners transiting Great Egg Harbor Bay. The spectator 
fleet shall be held behind buoys or committee boats provided by the 
sponsor in the following areas:
    (i) Northwestward of a line marked by a patrol vessel in position 39 
degrees 17 minutes 45 seconds North latitude; 074 degrees 33 minutes 45 
seconds West longitude to the 9th Street Route 52 Bridge in Ocean City, 
New Jersey, including Great Egg Waterway Red Buoy No. 2, but shall not 
extend northwestward of the Great Egg Waterway Point Buoy.
    (ii) Westward of a line of buoys between Great Egg Waterway Buoys 10 
and 14.
    (iii) Within the area around the shoals and islands in Beach 
Thorofare between Great Egg Waterway Buoys 15 and 21. This area shall at 
no point be closer that 150 yards from the line of bulkheads and lagoon 
entrances in Ocean City, New Jersey.

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    (4) All persons and vessels shall comply with the instructions of 
U.S. Coast Guard patrol personnel. Upon hearing five or more blasts from 
a U.S. Coast Guard vessel, the operator of a vessel shall stop 
immediately and proceed as directed. U.S. Coast Guard patrol personnel 
include commissioned, warrant and petty officers of the Coast Guard. 
Members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary may be present to inform vessel 
operators of this regulation and other applicable laws.

[CGD3 85-08, 50 FR 29222, July 18, 1985. Redesignated and amended by CGD 
87-008b, 52 FR 25219, July 6, 1987; CGD 96-052, 62 FR 16702, Apr. 8, 
1997; CGD 05-99-016, 64 FR 55830, Oct. 15, 1999]