Guam § 69122 - Territorial Waterway Marker System.
Full text of Guam Guam Code Annotated § 69122 — Territorial Waterway Marker System., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 69122. Territorial Waterway Marker System.
(a) Definitions:
(1) Aids to navigation mean buoys, beacons or other
fixed objects in the water which are used to mark
obstruction to navigation or to direct safe channels.
(2) Regulatory markers mean any anchored or fixed
marker in or on the water or sign on the shore or on a bridge
over the water other than aids to navigation and shall
include but not be limited to bathing markers, speed zone
markers, information markers, danger zone markers, boat
keep out areas and mooring buoys.
(b) Department may make regulations. The Guam Police
Department may, subject to the provisions of the Administrative
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Adjudication Act, make rules for the uniform marking of the
water areas in this Territory through the placement of aids to
navigation and regulatory markers. Such rules shall establish a
marking system compatible with the system of aids to navigation
prescribed by the United States Coast Guard. No person shall
mark or obstruct the waters of this Territory in any manner so as
to endanger the operation of watercraft or conflict with the
marking system prescribed by the Guam Police Department.
(c) Violation of regulatory type markers. It shall be
unlawful for a person to operate a vessel on the waters of this
Territory in a manner other than that prescribed or permitted by
regulatory markers.
(d) Interference with aids or markers. No person shall moor
or fasten a vessel to any aid to navigation or regulatory marker
except a mooring buoy and no person shall wilfully damage,
tamper, remove, obstruct or interfere with any aid to navigation
or regulatory marker whatsoever.
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What does Guam Code Annotated § 69122 cover?
Section 69122 ("Territorial Waterway Marker System.") is part of the Guam Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Guam. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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