CHANNEL MARKERS

Pawtucket River channel markers

It is illegal for the owner or the person having charge of any vessel, scow, boat, seine, or raft of any kind, which shall be made fast to any stake or buoy erected or placed for the security or guidance of vessels navigating the river, and every person who shall in any way willfully injure, remove, or destroy any of the stakes or buoys placed.

Federally placed markers in upper Narragansett Bay

It is illegal for every owner and every person having the charge of any vessel, scow, boat, seine, or raft of any kind, which shall be made fast to any stake or buoy which has been or shall be placed, at the expense of the United States, for the security and direction of vessels either in Providence River or in any part of Narragansett Bay or the waters thereof north of Conimicut Point or in Warren River, and every person who shall in any way injure or destroy any of the stakes and buoys placed.

Bristol and Conimicut areas

It is illegal for any person to make fast any ship, vessel, scow, boat, seine, or raft of any kind to the buoy on the shoal south of Conimicut Point or to the stake on that point or to the flagstaff on the halfway rock or to any stake which has been or may be placed at the mouth of Bristol Harbor, or to any of the moorings of those buoys, and the master or owner of the ship, vessel, scow, boat, seine, or raft.

Castle Island beacon or markers south of Conimicut

It is illegal for the captain, owner, or owners of every ship or vessel to run against or otherwise, injure the beacon on Castle Island, at the entrance of Bristol Harbor, or any buoy placed or hereafter to be placed, at the expense of the United States, in any of the waters of Narragansett Bay south of Conimicut Point or the stakes on the point, or in any way injure, destroy, or remove the chains or anchors by which they are or shall be moored.