§ 5901 City Harbor Regulations

This law lets a city that has part of a harbor make its own rules about that harbor, as long as those rules don’t clash with higher‑level state rules.

Key Takeaways

•A city can create its own harbor regulations.
•Those local rules must fit within the city’s normal police powers (like safety and order).
•The city’s rules can’t conflict with the state’s harbor provisions or any valid board of supervisors ordinance.

Example

The city decides that all boats must travel no faster than 5 knots when they are within 200 feet of the dock.

The city can set that speed limit because it’s a local rule about safety, and it’s allowed as long as the state’s harbor laws don’t say something different.

The governing body of a city within which a portion of the harbor is situated may establish by ordinance any regulations which are proper in the exercise of its police powers which regulations do not conflict with the provisions of this part, or with any lawful ordinance of the board of supervisors. (Amended by Stats. 1937, Ch. 844.)

This law lets a city that has part of a harbor make its own rules about that harbor, as long as those rules don’t clash with higher‑level state rules.

Key Takeaways

•A city can create its own harbor regulations.
•Those local rules must fit within the city’s normal police powers (like safety and order).
•The city’s rules can’t conflict with the state’s harbor provisions or any valid board of supervisors ordinance.

Example

The city decides that all boats must travel no faster than 5 knots when they are within 200 feet of the dock.

The city can set that speed limit because it’s a local rule about safety, and it’s allowed as long as the state’s harbor laws don’t say something different.

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