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17 <br />MINNESOTA RULES 6115.0170 <br />Subp. 36a. Shoreline zone. "Shoreline zone" means an area immediately waterward of the <br />ordinary high water level that may include the littoral area of a water body. <br />Subp. 37. Structure. "Structure" means any building, footing, foundation, slab, roof, boathouse, <br />deck, wall, dock, bridge, culvert, or any other object extending over or under, anchored to, or <br />attached to the bed or bank of a public water. <br />Subp. 38. Structural height. "Structural height" means the vertical distance from the natural <br />bed of the stream or watercourse measured at the downstream toe of the control structure or from <br />the lowest elevation of the outside limit of the control structure, if it is not across a stream channel <br />or watercourse, to the maximum storage elevation. <br />Subp. 39. Swellhead. "Swellhead" means the difference between the headwater elevation <br />necessary to pass the regional flood through the proposed structure and the tail water elevation <br />below the structure. <br />Subp. 40. Temporary structure. "Temporary structure" means any dock, floating structure, <br />watercraft lift, watercraft canopy, or other structure that can be removed from public waters by <br />skidding intact or by disassembly with hand tools. <br />Subp. 41. Watercourse. "Watercourse" means any channel having definable beds and banks <br />capable of conducting generally confined runoff from adjacent lands. During floods water may <br />leave the confining beds and banks but under low and normal flows water is confined within the <br />channel. A watercourse may be perennial or intermittent. <br />Subp. 42. Water level control structure. "Water level control structure" means any structure <br />which impounds or regulates the water surface elevation or flow of public waters, including dams <br />regulated under the provisions of parts 6115.0300 to 6115.0520. <br />Subp. 42a. Watercraft canopy. "Watercraft canopy" means a structure or device with a fabric <br />covered roof and without walls or a floor that is placed on the bed of a public water, is designed to <br />shelter watercraft, and is designed and constructed so that all components may be removed from <br />the lake or stream bed on a seasonal basis by skidding intact or by disassembly with hand tools. <br />Subp. 42b. Watercraft lift. "Watercraft lift" means a structure or device without walls that is <br />placed on the bed of a public water, is designed to lift watercraft above the level of the public water <br />when not in use, and is designed and constructed so that all components may be removed from the <br />lake or stream bed on a seasonal basis by skidding intact or by disassembly with hand tools. A <br />watercraft lift may be designed to include a fabric covered roof. <br />Subp. 43. Wharf. "Wharf' means a permanent structure constructed into navigable waters as <br />a part of a port facility for berthing or mooring commercial watercraft, or for transferring cargo to <br />and from watercraft in an industrial or commercial enterprise, or for loading or unloading passengers <br />from commercial watercraft, or for the operation of a port facility. <br />Statutory Authority: MS s 103 G. 315; 105.415 <br />History: 8 SR 533; 25 SR 143; 27 SR 529; 34 SR 145 <br />Published Electronically: August 27, 2009 <br />Copyright © 2019 by the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. All Rights Reserved. <br />