§ 8-143. Rights of city on property abutting public waterways.

(a)

Whenever a public street or thoroughfare is laid out or existing in the city abutting or touching a waterway open to public use, the city, as trustee for the public, has and owns riparian rights at such place. The city shall have the right to regulate the use of the waters adjacent to such place, and to construct docks, public landings, piers or wharves at such places.

(b)

Whenever a street, laid out and existing in the city, ends at a waterway in the city, the portion of such dead-end street abutting the waterway is hereby declared to be public property, and the city shall have the right to regulate the use of the waters adjacent to such place and to construct docks, public landings, piers or wharves at such place.

(Code 1953, § 11-11; Ord. No. C-68-23, § 2, 6-4-68)