New York Consolidated Laws, Navigation Law - NAV § 45-aaaa. Special provisions relating to speed on Sodus Bay

1. No vessel shall be operated within that area of the Sodus Bay Channel and Sodus Bay bounded and described as follows:  Beginning at the Sodus outer light at the north-westerly most point of the west breakwall of the Sodus Bay Channel and running thence southerly to the south-west corner of such breakwall;  thence running south-westerly along the shoreline of Sodus Point;  thence south-easterly along the shoreline of Sand Point to the easterly most point on said Sand Point, said point being more specifically defined as latitude 431558,  1 longitude 765814;  2  thence northerly across Sodus Bay to a point on the east breakwall, said point more specifically being defined as latitude 43°16′4″, longitude 76°58′3″;  thence westerly along said breakwall to the south-west corner and then northerly along the east pier to the east pier light on the Sodus Bay Channel;  thence north-westerly to the point in place of beginning in a manner or at a speed that causes a wake that unreasonably interferes with or endangers a dock, pier, raft, float, anchored or moored vessel or swimmer but in no event at a speed exceeding five miles per hour.

2. For the purpose of complying with the provisions of this section, the sheriff of the county of Wayne is directed to place buoy markers on that portion of Sodus Bay between the easterly most point of Sand Point and the point on east breakwall which is the termination of the zone established above for the purpose of advising users of the bay of the existence of the limited speed zone established herein.

3. Any person who operates a vessel in violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a violation punishable as set forth in section seventy-three-c of this article.

4. Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting any town or county from adopting or enacting any local laws, resolutions or ordinances related to persons operating a vessel within its limits, but no such municipality shall have the power to make less restrictive any of such provisions.