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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	100 Foot Restriction
	Date:	6/2/2008 5:43:00 PM

It passed but still has to be signed by the Commissioner. Good luck with the Marine Police enforcing this rule. The way I read it they are going to have to tell me what is "outside normal traffic channels" and how are they going to prove that at any point you were within 100 feet. This is nearly unenforceable and will leave violations up to the discretion of the MP. If you want to fight a ticket I can't see how you would lose because unlike calibrated speed detection devices (radar, lasar, etc.) there is no way for them to prove in court you violated the law (except for channels less than 100' wide).

100-foot rule OK'd by CAB
Thursday, May 22, 2008
An item Alabama's Conservation Advisory Board approved on Saturday will affect folks in southwest Alabama in a big way if it is signed by conservation commissioner Barnett Lawley.

The 100-foot restriction for vessels operating on the state's waters is based on how close you can get to a whole menu of things before being required to reduce to idle speed.

The regulation basically prohibits operating a vessel "at a speed greater than idle speed within 100 feet of any vessel which is moored, anchored, or adrift outside normal traffic channels or any wharf, dock, pier, piling, bridge structure or abutment, person in the water or shoreline adjacent to a full-time or part-time residence, public park, public beach, public swimming area, marina, restaurant or other public use area."