Legal Opinion
Personal Watercraft Coalition v. Marin County Board of Supervisors
California Court of Appeal
Decided July 16, 2002No. A093769, A094088PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KAY, P. J.
The County of Marin (County) adopted an ordinance banning the use of personal watercraft on or within its territorial waters. The trial court determined that the ordinance was unconstitutionally vague on its face in terms of its territorial application. We hold that the ordinance does not suffer from that constitutional infirmity. We also reject a number of other constitutional and statutory challenges to the validity of the ordinance.
Background
In October of 1999 the Board of Supervisors for the County adopted Ordinance No. 3302, which added nine sections to the county code…
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