§ 13-4. Operation of boats.

A. 

Every person operating a boat shall at all times operate it in a careful and prudent manner and at such a rate of speed as not to disturb the reasonable comfort or endanger the property of another or the life or limb of any person or so as to interfere with the free and proper use of the navigable waters within the Town of Brookhaven.

B. 

No person shall fail to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer, bay constable, harbormaster, dock master or other person duly empowered to regulate boat traffic in the navigable waters within the Town of Brookhaven and at any marina and dock facilities under the ownership and jurisdiction of the Town of Brookhaven.

C. 

Police authority during emergency conditions. Whenever the commanding officer or executive officer of the Suffolk County Police Marine Bureau shall deem it advisable during a fire or storm or at a time of any accident or special emergency, and only for such period of time as is necessitated thereby for the public safety or convenience, to temporarily close any harbor, channel, inlet or waterway in the navigable waters within the Town of Brookhaven or regulate, direct and divert boating traffic, such police officer shall have the power and authority to do so.