City of Milwaukee - File #: 990242

• File #: 990242
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/11/1999
• In control: PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• Final action: 7/13/1999
• Effective date: 7/30/1999
• Title: A substitute ordinance relating to the use of city-owned or city-controlled wharves and docks.
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR
• Indexes: LAKES, MILWAUKEE RIVER, PORT OF MILWAUKEE, RIVERS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
7/29/1999	1	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED
7/22/1999	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
7/13/1999	1	COMMON COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	13:0
6/30/1999	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE	Pass	3:0
6/24/1999	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
6/24/1999	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
5/19/1999	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR	Pass	5:0
5/13/1999	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
5/13/1999	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
5/11/1999	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

NUMB:
990242
VERS:
SUBSTITUTE 1
REF:

XXBY:
THE CHAIR
TITL:
A substitute ordinance relating to the use of city-owned or city-controlled wharves and docks.
SECS:
118-33 am
118-47 rc
ANLS:
- Analysis -

This ordinance creates the following provisions relating to the use of city-owned or city-controlled wharves and docks at street or alley ends:

1. The police chief is authorized to give orders or directions to prevent use of city docking facilities when requested to do so by the municipal port director.

2. The penalties for failure to comply with any order or directions of the port director or the chief of police relating to use of city docking facilities are increased.

3. The following exceptions to the general prohibition on non-city use of city docking facilities at street or alley ends are created:

a. The board of harbor commissioners may lease such facilities on an exclusive basis to boat owners (currently, such leases are permitted only for docking facilities at the foot of a city street or alley). The common council shall approve all leases over one year in duration.

b. The board of harbor commissioners may, in accordance with general terms and conditions established by the common council, license those facilities on a nonexclusive basis for use by boat owners.


BODY:
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1. Section 118-33 of the code is amended to read:

118-33. [[Harbor Master to]] Control >>of<< City Docks. 1. USE OF CITY DOCKS, ETC. The [[harbor master]] >>municipal port director, or the chief of police at the request of the port director,<< [[of the city of Milwaukee]] is [[hereby]] authorized and directed to give such orders [[and]] >>or<< directions >>, including the posting of appropriate signage prohibiting unauthorized use,<< as he >>or she<< shall deem proper and necessary to prevent the use of any >>street-end or alley-end<< wharves and docks which are...