Emergency Services Director Joe Theobald said the newly created beach enforcement division has issued its first citation, although not for any tent or canopy violation.
The violation, which occurred over the past weekend, involved a dog, Theobald told members of the Ocean City Council this week. City code prohibits canines on the beach and Boardwalk from May 1 through Sept. 30.
“We have not had to enforce, by citation, anything regarding the canopy itself,” he said.
Earlier this year, the City Council voted to create a new division, which would spend the first summer season educating the public on the city’s beach regulations, including newly enacted tent and canopy laws.
Those laws – passed last year and amended in the spring – ban beach tents (with the exception of tents used for babies) and prohibit beachgoers from erecting beach canopies before 10 a.m. and then leaving those canopies unattended; prohibit beach canopies larger than 15-by-15 feet; require a 3-foot separation around a canopy’s perimeter; and require the anchoring for such canopies to be contained within the canopy’s footprint.
yeah but we will put up with all those ugly dogs from pa nj and dc on the beach!
Educating the public? It’s a new public every week. Mission Impossible. Maybe some signs beside the boardwalk up and down the beach, and a billboard or two on Rt 50 and 90 coming into town.
Let’s just close the beach down;
* too many rowdy teens
* no.tram for the elderly
*.monkeys out of the city zoo are constantly shoplifting or have committed other crimes