WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 794

(2)  In order to foster and facilitate navigation and
prevent injury to persons or property:

(i) Prohibit, provide for, and regulate within
its territorial jurisdiction the shipment, storage, handling, and
transportation of explosives and other materials that it
determines to be dangerous;

(ii) Provide for the stationing, anchoring, and
moving of vessels or other watercraft; and

(iii) Adopt rules and regulations to prevent
any refuse or other matter from being thrown into, deposited in,
or placed where it may fall or be washed into any navigable
waters;

(3)  Make surveys or charts of navigable waters within
its territorial jurisdiction and ascertain the depth and course
of the channels of these waters;

(4)  In order to prevent injury to navigation or
health:

(i) Erect, maintain, and authorize the erection
and maintenance of wharves, bulkheads, piers, and pilings; and

(ii) Adopt regulations governing their
erection, maintenance, and repair, INCLUDING REGULATIONS TO
PROHIBIT CONCERNING THE ERECTION, MAINTENANCE, OR REPAIR OF ANY
WHARF, DOCK, PIER, BULKHEAD, OR PILING THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING UNIT OR OTHER NON-WATER DEPENDENT
STRUCTURE ON A PIER; and

(5)  As to wharves, docks, piers, bulkheads, or
pilings, it owns or controls:

(i) Regulate their use;

(ii) Lease or rent them;

(iii) Impose and collect dockage from vessels
and watercraft lying at or using them; and

(iv) Collect wharfage and other charges on
goods, wares, merchandise, or other articles landed at, shipped
from, stored on, or passed over them.

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