Sec. 15-16. Speed of vessels. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 15-16. Speed of vessels. If any vessel, wholly or partly propelled by power, moves at a greater rate of speed than six miles per hour, when approaching or passing, and while within two hundred feet of, any wharf, pier or dock in the city of Hartford between the Bulkeley Bridge over the Connecticut River and the southern limits of said city, or Long Wharf and pier in New Haven Harbor, when any vessel is lying thereat at any berth below the north end of the platform on the east side of the wharf, or the wharf or pier in Bridgeport Harbor known as Mather's Dock, or any wharf, pier or marine railway in Norwalk Harbor, or any wharf in the city of Middletown, or any dock, pier or wharf in the city of New London or in New London Harbor, or in the city of Norwich, or between the cities of New London and Norwich, or on the Eight Mile River in Lyme between the northerly end of the channel at Hamburg Village and the southerly end at the Connecticut River, or any wharf on either side of Mystic River between its mouth at Noank beacon and the most northerly channel buoy north of the Marine Historical Association, or while passing between Branford Point Dock and Sybil's Creek, so called, in the Branford River, the person in command of any such vessel shall forfeit one hundred dollars to the state, and shall also be liable to pay threefold damages to any person whose property is injured in consequence of the violation of the provisions of this section.

      (1949 Rev., S. 4760; 1957, P.A. 286, S. 1; 432; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 16.)

      History: 1961 act provided for payment of forfeiture to state rather than county, county government having been abolished.