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COMAR 08.18.01.09. Wake Surfing

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Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 08 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES › Subtitle 18 BOATING — SPEED LIMITS AND OPERATION OF VESSELS › Chapter 01 General › COMAR 08.18.01.09

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A person may not operate or give permission to operate a watercraft for the purpose of wake surfing less than 200 feet from a shoreline, marine structure (pier, dock, piling, jetty, bridge structure, abutment, bulkhead, regulatory buoy, channel marker, floating platform anchored to the bottom and used for embarking and disembarking from boats, swimming or water skiing) and other vessels operating in the area or at anchor or moored or an individual or individuals in the water.

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