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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Walleye_Chaser" data-source="post: 186852" data-attributes="member: 1776">15. BOAT MOTOR RESTRICTIONSPlease check for signs at access points or call theGame and Fish Department. “Idle speed only” is definedas operating a boat at the slowest possible speed necessaryto maintain steerage (i.e., trolling – with no wake).Electric Motors Only: (Note: Boats may be propelledIf I'm missing something here, please let me know. To me, it simply is explaining what idle speed means. So who else takes this way? So when they say "operate a motorboat within 100 feet of a person fishing from a shortline..that means they can use idle speed within 100ft? So at 101 ft they can go full speed? Honestly not trying to be a dick, just looking for clarification, as the text isn't clear.- - - Updated - - -16. BOATING REGULATIONSWhere signed at Devils Lake, boats used for fishingmay not obstruct normal boat traffic underneath bridges.See pages 14-15 for federal refuge boating closures.• An owner of any watercraft propelled by a motor mustregister that vessel with the North Dakota Game andFish Department, or the state in which he/she resides.34• If your address changes, boat ownership changes,boat is destroyed, abandoned, stolen or recovered –you are required to notify the Department within 15 days.• The certificate of number is not transferable. Anyonepurchasing a boat must register the boat in his/hername.• The Department can issue a new certificate of numberto replace one that is lost. The cost is the sameas for a new one.• No person under 12 years of age may operate amotorboat (includes personal watercraft, jetskis, etc.)propelled by a motor of more than 10 horsepowerunless the operator is accompanied by a person 18years of age or older.• No person 12 through 15 years of age may operatea motorboat or personal watercraft propelledby a motor of more than 10 horsepower unless theoperator is accompanied by a person 18 years ofage or older, or the operator has taken and passed aDepartment approved boating course.• All boats must have a Coast Guard approved lifepreserver for each occupant, and those boats over16 feet in length must also have an approved throwablelife preserver. Boat occupants age 10 and undermust wear their life preserver.• No person may operate any vessel in a reckless ornegligent manner such as:- Endangering the life or property of another.- Use of excessive speed during periods of reducedvisibility or while in close proximity to other vessels.- Operating in overloaded condition.- Operating within swimming areas designated bymarkers or by the presence of swimmers.- Operating near dams and other hazardous waters.- Operating in such a manner as to cause adangerous or damaging wake.35- Operation in such a manner as to molest or annoya person lawfully engaged in fishing.• No person may operate a motorboat (includes personalwatercraft) within 100 feet of a person fishingfrom a shoreline, a swimmer, swimming/diving raft,or an occupied, anchored or nonmotorized vessel,or within 250 feet of a reduced speed or slow or nowakesign at greater than slow or no-wake speed.</blockquote>

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