Section 24-405. MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF AND MARKET

 

405.1This section provides for the control, regulation, and operation of the municipal fish wharf and market located at the water frontage on the Potomac River lying south of Maine Avenue, between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets, S.W., including the buildings and wharves on that frontage.

 

405.2No person shall drink, transfer possession of, or dispense in any manner any alcoholic beverages except within the portions of the market building occupied by tenants having a license to sell or dispense these beverages.

 

405.3No person shall engage in any disorderly or boisterous conduct, or loaf at or on the premises of fish wharf and market, or fish or go in bathing from the wharf.

 

405.4No person shall throw paper, rubbish, trash, or refuse of any kind on the wharves, walks, roadways, or other market premises, or in the street fronting the same.

 

405.5All paper, rubbish, trash, or refuse shall be placed in receptacles and removed by tenants to a space set aside for that purpose.

 

405.6Each tenant shall keep his or her place of business in a clean and sanitary condition.

 

405.7The Director of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, or the Director's designee, shall have authority to direct the parking and arrangement of all vehicles on the market premises; and all persons in charge of vehicles on the market premises shall conform to all directions given by the Director.

 

405.8No person shall park any vehicle on the market premises, except while transacting legitimate business at the market or wharves.

 

405.9No person shall solicit sales or orders for any commodity being sold from any boat or other vessel, except at the wharf at which the boat or vessel is docked.

 

405.10No owner, operator, or other person in charge of, or employed in connection with, any boat or other water craft shall sell or offer for sale from any boat or other water craft anchored at the fish wharf, any fish, oysters, or other sea food unless the sea food has been transported to the wharf on the boat from which it is sold or offered for sale, or unless it has been purchased from a person other than the person who caught it.

 

405.11No person shall sell from any boat anchored at the fish wharf any watermelons or other farm products unless the watermelons or other farm products have been transported to the wharf for or purchased from the producer of the products.

 

405.12No person shall engage in shucking oysters for the public until he or she has been given a permit and identification badge by the market master.

 

405.13An oyster shucking permit may be revoked at any time.

 

405.14No person shall ply his or her trade of shucking oysters for the public except on the portion of the market premises designated for this purpose by the Director.

 

405.15No person shall dock any boat or other water craft at the municipal fish wharf and market without a permit issued by the Director; except boats carrying cargoes of fish, oysters, or other seafood products, or watermelons or other farm products. Issuance of a permit shall be based on a finding that the dockage applied for will not interfere with the dockage of boats carrying cargoes of fish, oysters, or other seafood products.

 

405.16A non-cargo dockage permit may be issued for not more than four (4) consecutive days in any one (1) calendar month; and then only upon the condition that, should the dockage space be required by any boat carrying cargoes of fish, oysters, or other seafood products, the person to whom the permit has been issued shall immediately remove his or her boat from the dock upon the request of the Director.

 

405.17The fees for non-cargo dockage permits shall be the following:

 

(a)For boats not more than fifty feet (50 ft.) in length, one dollar ($1) per day;

 

(b)For boats fifty-one feet (51 ft.) to one hundred feet (100 ft.) in length, two dollars ($2) per day; and

 

(c)For boats over one hundred feet (100 ft.) in length, five dollars ($5) per day.

 

source

Article 5, §§3, 4, & 5 of the Police Regulations (May 1981).