Section 324.03. Definitions.

 

(1)  "Fishing raft" has the meaning given in s. 30.01 (1p) , Stats., and may include a boat when it is not normally used as a means of transportation on water and when it is normally retained in place by means of a permanent or semi-permanent attachment to the shore or to the bed of a waterway.

(2)  "Flotation device" has the meaning given in s. 30.01 (1t) , Stats.

(3)  "From the waterway" for the purposes of s. 30.126 (5) (f) , Stats., and this chapter, means above and landward of the ordinary high water mark.

(4)  "Normally retained in place by means of a permanent or semi-permanent attachment to the shore or the bed of the waterway", for purposes of s. 30.01 (1p) , Stats., and this chapter, means a placement waterward of the ordinary high water mark and on the water for a minimum of 14 consecutive days in each year.

(5)  "Ordinary high water mark" means the point on the bank or shore up to which the presence and action of surface water is so continuous as to leave a distinctive mark either by erosion, destruction of terrestrial vegetation, or other easily recognized characteristic. Where the bank or shore at any particular place is of such character that it is impossible or difficult to ascertain where the point of ordinary high water mark is, recourse may be had to other places on the bank or shore of the same stream or lake to determine whether a given stage of water is above or below the ordinary high water mark.

(6)  "Wolf river municipality" has the meaning given in s. 30.01 (10) , Stats.

History: Cr. Register, January, 1985, No. 349 , eff. 2-1-85; CR 02-045 : r. and recr. Register December 2002 No. 564 , eff. 1-1-03.