§ 62-71. Special use permits—Businesses.

(a)

Seasonal special use permits for the purpose of testing, winterizing, dewinterizing or demonstrating their motorboat or craft for sale, may be issued to any business or enterprise, located inside the corporate limits of the town or within three miles of the town's corporate limits, which business or enterprise has a primary business of maintaining or selling boats or boating equipment. The fee for such seasonal permits shall be set from time to time for such a business or enterprise located within the corporate limits of the town and for such a business or enterprise not located within the corporate limits of the town, but located within three miles of the corporate limits of the town.

(b)

Daily special use permits, for the purposes set out hereinabove, may be issued to any such business or enterprise located within the corporate limits of the town for a fee as set from time to time and to any such business or enterprise not located within the corporate limits of the town, but located within three miles of the corporate limits of the town, for the currently required daily fee.

(c)

Any business obtaining a seasonal permit for the lawful use and under the guidelines in this section need not schedule such use with the town; however, such business may have only one boat on the lake at any given time.

(d)

This special use permit shall be in addition to any other permit required to operate a boat on Hope Mills Lake. Upon the issuance of such a special use permit, the holder of such permit shall not be limited to a no wake speed in those areas of Hope Mills Lake not designated as "no wake" zones.

(e)

The permit shall allow the holder thereof to operate its motorboat or craft in that area of the lake so designated for use by special use permit holders for a period of one hour only and during the designated time for the operation of motorboats as outlined in this chapter.

(f)

Upon a violation of any of the conditions of the special use permit, the town shall have the authority to revoke the special use permit.

(Code 1985, § 101.26(D); Code 1999, § 62-61; Ord. of 2-21-2018)