8.24.008 Additional definitions.
In addition to the definitions in RCW 79A.60.010, the following definitions shall apply and have the meanings set forth below, except where the same shall be clearly contrary to or inconsistent with the context of the section in which used.
A. “Buoy” means a small float moored in the water used to define a navigation channel, convey an official message, or provide temporary moorage for a vessel.
B. “City” means the city of Gig Harbor.
C. “Floating home” means a building constructed on a float, used whole or in part for human habitation as a dwelling or business, but not designed or primarily used as a vessel, and which is normally incapable of self-propulsion, and usually permanently moored, anchored, or otherwise secured, as distinguished from the mooring or anchoring of a vessel.
D. “Moor” means a position where vessels or watercraft are affixed to devices or structures other than a vessel’s parochial anchoring system.
E. “Obstruction” means any vessel or watercraft or any matter which may in any way block, interfere with or endanger any vessel or watercraft or impede navigation, or which cannot comply with the rules of the road identified in GHMC 8.24.012.
F. “Watercraft” means any contrivance used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. Cribs, piles, or rafts of logs shall not be included in the terms “watercraft” or “vessel,” but shall be included in the term “obstruction” when they shall be floating loose and not under any control or when under control and obstructing any navigable channel. (Ord. 1334 § 1, 2016; Ord. 766 § 2, 1997).