“Boat harbor facilities” includes mooring devices, including but not limited to floats, fingers and stalls; grid irons; and other appurtenances located in the boat harbors; land storage areas; and loading areas under the jurisdiction of the City of Saint Paul.

“Boat owners” means the actual or registered owner, master, managing agent, person in navigational control of, or other person responsible for the operation of the boat.

“Boats” means watercraft of every kind and description, including but not limited to vessels, ships and skiffs. Aircraft, while on the water or in air, shall not be covered by this title and may not be permitted in that area commonly know as the “boat harbor.”

“Derelict” means any boat moored or otherwise located in the boundaries of the boat harbor facilities which is forsaken, abandoned, deserted, or cast away, or which by appearance gives evidence of being forsaken, abandoned, deserted, or cast away, or which is unsound, unseaworthy, and unfit for its trade or occupation, and which by any substantial evidence of neglect may be considered abandoned.

“Dockage” means the charge assessed against a vessel for berthing at a wharf, pier, bulkhead structure, or bank, or for mooring to a vessel so berthed. Dockage charges do not include tieing up and casting off service.

“Free time” is the specific period during which cargo may occupy space assigned to it on terminal property free of wharf demurrage charges immediately prior to the loading or subsequent to the discharge of such cargo on or off the vessel.

“Harbormaster” means the duly retained Harbormaster and the assistant Harbormasters of the City of Saint Paul, Alaska.

“Loading areas” means approaches and designated areas of any float or dock when suitably posted and marked as such to be used by the general public for the purpose of loading and unloading of supplies, equipment and stores.

“Mooring facilities reservation fee” is that fee which is charged to the boat owner, in consideration for being granted a reserved mooring space in the boat harbor facilities.

“Mooring facilities use fee” is that fee which is charged to the boat owner for the use of an open mooring space in the boat harbor facilities or a vacant reserved mooring space.

“Open mooring space” means mooring space which has not been set aside and posted as a reserved mooring space and which is available on a “first-come-first-served” basis. An open mooring space is usually used for temporary or short-term mooring.

“Reserved mooring space” means mooring space which has been set aside and posted for long-term mooring with the prior knowledge and approval of the Harbormaster and after the payment of the appropriate fee.

“Tranship” means the act of moving cargo from one vessel and loading it on or into another.

“Wharf demurrage” is a charge assessed against cargo remaining in or on terminal facilities after the expiration of free time without prearranged storage.

“Wharfage” means a charge assessed against the cargo or vessel on all cargo passing on or conveyed over, onto, or under wharves, or berthing vessels (to or from barge, lighter, or water) when berthed at wharf or when moored in a slip adjacent to a wharf. [Ord. 91-02 § 3 (Att.), 1990. Code 1979 § 18.04.040.]