Authority: IC 14-15-7-3

Affected: IC 14-15

Sec. 2. (a) This section establishes restrictions on the operation of a watercraft on Geist Reservoir in Hamilton County, Marion County, and Hancock County.

(b) An individual may not operate a watercraft at greater than idle speed in any of the following locations:

1. (1) East of a line seven hundred (700) feet west and parallel to the Olio Road causeway.
2. (2) South of the Fall Creek Road bridge and causeway to a line one hundred (100) feet south and parallel to the western prolongation of the centerline of 96th Street.
3. (3) In an area known as Devil's Elbow and more particularly described as east, south, and upstream from a line extended shoreline to shoreline beginning at the point latitude 39° E 54' 42.0021756" north and longitude 85° E 58' 12.826398" west; extending east-northeasterly to the point latitude 39° E 54' 43.20567" north and 85° E 58' 5.5123356" west; and extending north-northeasterly to the point latitude 39° E 54' 47.1218976" north and 85° E 58' 2.3784852" west.
4. (4) In an area known as the Indianapolis Yacht Club Harbor and located east and southeast of a line in the southeast quarter of section 10 and part of the southwest quarter of section 11 in township 17 north, range 5 east. A point one hundred eighty (180) feet southeast from the east corner of the southeast abutment of the most westerly bridge over the reservoir, which is nineteen (19) feet northeast of the centerline of the pavement (assumed bearing of north fifty-four (54) degrees, ten (10) minutes west) of Fall Creek Road, across a bay of the reservoir north fifty-three (53) degrees, seventeen (17) minutes east one thousand one hundred eighty-six (1,186) feet, to the shoreline of the reservoir.
5. (5) In an area known as the Indianapolis Sailing Club Harbor, in the southeast quarter of section 10, township 17 north, range 5 east, and commencing at the southeast corner of section 10, west along the south line of the section three thousand five hundred (3,500) feet, north at right angles to the south section line three hundred eighty (380) feet to the point (assumed bearing of north twenty-three (23) degrees, thirty-seven (37) minutes west) in the southeast quarter of section 10, township 17 north, range 5 east seven hundred forty-six and four-tenths (746.4) feet to the north end of a retaining wall along the shoreline of the reservoir, following the meanders of the shoreline of the reservoir northeasterly, southerly, and southwesterly to the southeast quarter of section 10, township 17 north, range 5 east.
6. (6) In an area known as Mast Head Bay, in the southeast quarter and part of the northeast quarter of section 9, township 17 north, range 5 east, and upstream and north of Fall Creek Road and east of Geist Road.
7. (7) In an area known as Cocktail Cove.
8. (8) North of 96th Street and west of Olio Road in Fall Creek Township, Hamilton County. The zone is the area east of an arc formed beginning where the idle zone described in subdivision (4) intersects the east shoreline, then extending northward and connecting with the chain of islands and including the embayments east of the chain of islands, to a point four thousand (4,000) feet from the idle zone described in subdivision (4).
9. (9) In an area known as Juice Box Cove and the embayment east and southeasterly from a line extended shoreline to shoreline beginning at latitude 39° 56' 38.23" north and longitude 85° 55' 52.39" west and extending southwesterly to latitude 39° 56' 37.33" north and longitude 85° 55' 53.61" west.

(c) An individual may not operate a watercraft within a rectangular area on Geist Reservoir three hundred (300) feet and parallel to the concrete crest of the dam spillway and extending one hundred (100) feet along the dam from the east and west abutments of the dam spillway. The overall dimensions of the zone under this subsection are three hundred (300) feet by seven hundred (700) feet.

(d) An individual may not anchor a watercraft or tie a watercraft to another watercraft, except to tow a watercraft in a traveled portion of the reservoir to do the following:

1. (1) Interfere with the safe passage of another watercraft.
2. (2) Create a safety hazard to any individual.

(e) An individual may not operate a motorized watercraft in the area known as the Geist Waterfront Park and beach cove at the closure line between the coordinates:

1. (1) latitude 39.950009 and longitude -85.915834; and
2. (2) latitude 39.949934 and longitude -85.915334;

beginning fourteen (14) days before Memorial Day and ending October 1 of the same calendar year.

(Natural Resources Commission; 312 IAC 5-9-2; filed Mar 23, 2001, 2:50 p.m.: 24 IR 2380, eff Jan 1, 2002; filed May 16, 2002, 10:03 a.m.: 25 IR 3044; readopted filed May 29, 2008, 1:53 p.m.: 20080625-IR-312080057RFA; errata filed Jun 2, 2009, 10:29 a.m.: 20090624-IR-312090386ACA; readopted filed Jul 17, 2014, 3:46 p.m.: 20140813-IR-312140067RFA; filed Mar 5, 2020, 1:51 p.m.: 20200401-IR-312190379FRA; readopted filed Sep 16, 2020, 8:15 a.m.: 20201014-IR-312200355RFA; filed Jan 27, 2025, 3:56 p.m.: 20250226-IR-312240265FRA)