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CITIES OF MARCO & NAPLES TOTAL
COMBINED
MISDEMEANOR CODE VIOLATIONS 1988-2007 =
12,311
DOLLARS
ASSESSED IN 19 YEARS = $614,480
Approximately
4,500 Tourists became criminals after visiting the City of Naples in 19
years
Approximately
30% of
all tourist convictions were PIER
or BEACH
related offences
Sec. 42-53. Conduct on fishing pier
and parking area.
(a) Prohibited
conduct; unlawful acts.
On
the city fishing pier
and the parking area, no person shall:
(1) Dive or jump from the pier.
(2) Swim or operate a boat within 150
feet of the pier.
(3) Bring or allow pets on the pier.
(4) Place fish in trash containers.
(5) Possess alcoholic beverages.
(6) Use the railing or benches for
cleaning or cutting bait or fish.
(7) Fish with more than 1 line or pole
at one time.
(8) Bed down or sleep on the pier,
beach or parking area.
(9) Deface, damage or defile the
premises.
(10) Litter the premises.
(11) Post notices or posters, except
on bulletin boards.
(12) Use restrooms for changing
clothes.
(13) Operate or be in possession of a
bicycle or scooter, or use a skateboard, roller skates or inline
skates on the pier.
(15) Beach a shark within the vicinity
of the pier.
(16) Use traps, nets, seines or other
trapping or netting devices.
(17) Use devices utilizing combustible
fuels.
(18) Use or possess any fishing reel
on the pier
in excess of the size of 4/0 or equal or use any fishing reel with a
side plate of more than 4 inches in diameter.
(19) Use a float for fishing from the pier
in excess of 4 inches in diameter. Under no circumstances shall anyone
use plastic bags as a floating device for fishing.
Note: Only 0.8% of all tourist related
crimes were DISORDERLY CONDUCT. This indicated that most tourists are law
abiding.
So why are so many tourists being
convicted of criminal activities, on or near the beach, the areas we
promote for tourists to enjoy themselves? Clearly, the signage is
inadequate and words should be replaced with icons as the county signage
does (see below) and secondly these relatively minor offences should NOT
be criminal offences but civil infractions which, do not carry a jail
sentence.
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