RELATES TO:
KRS
150.090,
150.620,
150.625,
150.640
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS
150.025 authorizes the department to
promulgate administrative regulations restricting the use of state recreational
areas. This administrative regulation establishes the safety procedures for
multiple use of state waters to ensure noninterference with the primary users,
fishermen.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Slow speed" means speed attained with
the throttle of the motor set at its slowest forward position.
(2) "Speeding and reckless operation" means
any operation of a boat in any area of a lake that may endanger other persons
or craft using the lake by intimidation, direct contact or by waves created by
the speed or reckless operation of a boat.
Section 2. Water skiing shall be permitted on
Guist Creek Lake and Lake Beshear beginning the third Thursday of May and
continuing through September 30, annually, during the daylight hours of 10 a.m.
to sunset and only in those areas designated and marked as "ski areas" by buoys
or signs by the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. Water skiing shall
be prohibited in coves or embayments of the lakes.
Section 3. Water skiing and the pulling of
water skiers shall be permitted on Lake Malone beginning the third Thursday of
May and continuing through October 31, annually, but only during the daylight
hours of 10 a.m. to sunset and only in those areas designated and marked as
"ski areas" by buoys or signs by the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources.
Water skiing and pulling of a water skier shall be prohibited in coves or
embayments of Lake Malone.
Section
4. Water skiing and tubing shall be prohibited on Cedar Creek
Lake.
Section 5. Boat speeding and
reckless operation of a boat shall be prohibited at any time in any area of any
lake owned or controlled by the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
including the ski zones. All boats, except those being operated in the
designated skiing areas during the annual summer water skiing period, shall, in
all areas of any lake, maintain slow speed as defined in Section 1 of this
administrative regulation when passing any other boat in which the occupants
are actively engaged in fishing.
Section
6. Swimming in any lake controlled or owned by the Department of
Fish and Wildlife Resources shall be prohibited, except in areas specifically
set aside for swimming at which a qualified lifeguard is on duty, or while
entering or exiting the water for purposes of water skiing.
Section 7. Camping shall be prohibited on
property owned or controlled by the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
that surrounds a lake owned or controlled by the Department of Fish and
Wildlife Resources, except as designated by a department sign.
Section 8. All officers and agents of the
Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources shall have full authority to enforce
the provisions of this administrative regulation. Failure to comply with the
rules and specifications established in this administrative regulation shall
constitute grounds for revocation of the rights and privileges of any person to
admittance to and to the use of these public waters.
