§ 36-56. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Idle speed/no wake means that a personal watercraft cannot proceed at a speed greater than that speed which is necessary to maintain steerageway.

Personal watercraft means a small class A-1 or A-2 vessel which uses an outboard motor, or an inboard motor powering a water jet pump, as its primary source of motive power and which is designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing or kneeling on, or being towed behind the vessel, rather than in the conventional manner of sitting or standing inside the vessel.

Wake means all changes in the vertical height of the water's surface caused by the passage of a personal watercraft including, but not limited to, the personal watercraft's bow wave, stern wake, and prop wash.

(Code 1999, § 5.5-161)