In any case where the condition or operation or location of a vessel or watercraft
creates an emergency situation menacing or interfering with navigation or threatening
docks or other vessels or watercraft, property or persons, county waterways staff,
law enforcement officials, and the county port authority shall have the right to enter
upon the vessel or watercraft and take whatever steps or actions are necessary to
eliminate or minimize the hazard, threat, interference, or menace. Actual costs incurred
therein by the county, law enforcement, and the port authority may be recovered from
the owner, operator or custodian of the vessel or watercraft and shall constitute
a lien on the vessel or watercraft if such costs remain unpaid thirty (30) days after
written notice thereof to the owner, operator or custodian unless such person or entity
files a written notice of objection to payment of such costs within such 30-day period.
In the event of a timely written notice of objection, the board of county commissioners
shall hold a hearing to consider the evidence and to determine the objector's responsibility
for payment of such costs
