§ 14-15-3-17 — Minimum distance from shore lines

Indiana § 14-15-3-17

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 15: REGULATION OF WATER RECREATION
• Ch. 3: Watercraft Operation

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(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a
person may not operate a motorboat within two hundred (200) feet of
the shore line of a lake or channel of the lake at a speed greater than
idle speed.
(b) This subsection applies to lakes formed by hydroelectric dams
in either of the following counties:
(1) A county having a population of more than twenty-four
thousand six hundred (24,600) and less than twenty-five thousand
(25,000).
(2) A county having a population of more than twenty thousand
(20,000) and less than twenty thousand four hundred (20,400).
A person may not operate a motorboat within fifty (50) feet of the shore
line at a speed greater than idle speed. However, on tributaries of lakes
described in this subsection that are formed by hydroelectric dams, a
person operating a motor boat may not approach or pass within two
hundred (200) feet of the shore line of the tributary at a speed greater
than idle speed. For the purposes of this chapter, tributaries on lakes
formed by hydroelectric dams do not include the principal body of
water flowing into the lakes.
[Pre-1995 Recodification Citation: 14-1-1-29.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.38-2000, SEC.3; P.L.170-2002, SEC.93; P.L.119-2012, SEC.119; P.L.195-2017, SEC.5; P.L.104-2022, SEC.92.