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NY Nav L § 39-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 3 - Navigable Waters of the State 39-A - Motor Boat Regulation on Lake Colby.

§  39-a. Motor boat regulation on Lake Colby. 1. The term "motor boat"   shall mean and include a mechanically propelled vessel having  a  source   of  power  in  excess  of  ten  horsepower other than propulsion by wind   propelled sail or human propelled oar or paddle. Such  term  shall  also   include  a  vessel temporarily or permanently equipped with a detachable   motor, commonly known as an "outboard" motor boat.2. No motor boat shall be operated on  Lake  Colby,  in  the  town  of   Harrietstown, county of Franklin.3.  The  provisions  of  this section shall not apply to emergency and   rescue vessels and vessels operated for  the  official  functions  of  a   federal, state or local governmental agency.4. A person violating any provision of subdivision two of this section   shall  be  guilty  of  a violation punishable by a fine of not more than   fifty dollars, or imprisonment for not more than ten days,  or  by  both   such fine and imprisonment.
NY Nav L § 79-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 4-A - Enforcement by Counties 79-A - Definitions.

§ 79-a. Definitions.  As  used  in  this article: 1. "State aid" shall   mean payments by  the  state  to  an  eligible  governmental  entity  in   accordance with the provisions of this article.2. "Program year" shall mean the calendar year.2-a.  "Eligible  governmental  entity" shall mean the Lake George park   commission or a county enforcing the  provisions  of  this  chapter  and   having  an  accident  reporting  system and vessel and related equipment   anti-theft program and/or  an  "I  love  NY  waterways"  boating  safety   program  and/or  boating noise level enforcement program approved by the   commissioner. In a county which does not enforce the provisions of  this   chapter  and  has  an  approved accident reporting system and vessel and   related equipment anti-theft program and/or an  "I  love  NY  waterways"   boating safety program and/or a boating noise level enforcement program,   the  eligible  governmental entity may be a city, town or village within   the county. In addition, the commissioner shall  promulgate  regulations   to  provide  for direct funding to any city, town or village in a county   constituting  an  eligible  governmental   entity   pursuant   to   this   subdivision  which such city, town or village enforces the provisions of   this chapter and has established an "I love NY waterways" boating safety   program approved by the commissioner.3. "County, city, town or village" shall mean each county, city,  town   or  village  in  the  state  of New York except those counties which lie   within the territorial limits of the city of New York. The term "county"   with reference to such counties lying within the territorial  limits  of   the city of New York shall mean the city of New York.4.  "Authorized expenditures" shall mean those expenditures determined   by the commissioner to be reasonable and necessary for the adequate  and   proper   enforcement   of  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  and  for   implementing  an  accident  reporting  system  and  vessel  and  related   equipment  anti-theft  program  and/or  an "I love NY waterways" boating   safety program and/or a boating noise  level  enforcement  program.  The   commissioner shall prepare and maintain in his office a schedule of such   authorized expenditures and amend the same from time to time.
NY Nav L § 79-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 4-A - Enforcement by Counties 79-C - Rules.

§ 79-c. Rules.  The  commissioner  may  adopt  and amend when he deems   necessary all rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of  this   article.
NY Nav L § 80 (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 5 - Tidewater Navigation 80 - Three Feet Depth to Be Maintained.

§ 80. Three   feet  depth  to  be  maintained.  Whenever  a  municipal   corporation shall divert or cause to be diverted the water, or a portion   thereof, of a fresh water stream or streams outside  the  limits  of  an   incorporated  city  flowing  into  a  tidewater  creek  or estuary which   tidewater creek or estuary  before  such  diversion  was  navigable  for   vessels  of  twenty  or  more  tons  burden, it shall be the duty of the   corporation so diverting or  causing  to  be  diverted  such  stream  or   streams of fresh water to keep said navigable tidewater creek or estuary   deepened  to the depth of at least three feet at low water mark from its   mouth to the head of tidewater for the full natural width of said creek,   and to maintain such navigable depth of water at all times, but  in  the   county  of  Nassau  it shall not be compulsory to maintain such depth to   any greater width than fifty feet.
NY Nav L § 81 (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 5 - Tidewater Navigation 81 - Supervisor to Serve Notice.

§ 81. Supervisor  to  serve  notice.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of the   supervisor of the town or the president of the incorporated  village  in   which  any  such  tidewater  creek or estuary is located, in whole or in   part, to serve written or printed notice on the  chief  officer  of  the   municipal corporation so diverting water from the stream of fresh water,   or  on the superintendent or other person in charge of the works, at any   time, of  the  fact  of  such  tidewater  creek  or  estuary  not  being   maintained  at  the  depth  and  width herein provided for, and the said   municipal corporation shall within fifteen days thereafter, by  dredging   or otherwise, restore such navigable stream to the depth as specified by   this  article;  and  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for such corporation to   continue the diversion of any such fresh water stream after said fifteen   days have expired from the  time  of  serving  such  notice,  until  the   tidewater  creek  or estuary into which any such stream flows shall have   been deepened to the required  depth  and  width.    If  such  municipal   corporation  disputes  any  of the allegations of fact contained in such   notice, it must within three days after receiving  the  notice  cause  a   reply  in writing to be served on the town or village officer whose name   is signed thereto by delivering the same to him personally,  or  to  the   town  clerk  or  village  clerk  as  the  case may be, and such reply in   writing must state what alleged  fact  is  disputed,  and  also  clearly   specify  the reasons for controverting the allegations of fact contained   in the notice.
NY Nav L § 82 (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 5 - Tidewater Navigation 82 - Commissioner of Transportation to Inspect and Report.

§ 82. Commissioner of transportation to inspect and report. In case of   any  controversy  arising  between  such town or village officer and the   said municipal corporation diverting such fresh water as to the depth or   width  of  said  tidewater  creek  or  estuary,  the   commissioner   of   transportation  shall,  within  ten  days after notice to him cause said   tidewater creek or estuary to be  inspected  and  a  report  as  to  its   condition to be filed in the office of the department of transportation,   and  the  depth at low-water mark as certified to by him shall be deemed   correct, and the expense of  such  inspection  shall  be  paid  by  said   municipal  corporation,  which  corporation shall have fifteen days from   and after the filing of such report in which to put such tidewater creek   or estuary into the proper navigable condition herein provided for.
NY Nav L § 83 (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 5 - Tidewater Navigation 83 - Injunction.

§ 83. Injunction.  At  any  time  after  fifteen days' notice has been   given, as hereinabove provided for, by the supervisor of a town  or  the   president  of  a  village  in  which  such tidewater creek or estuary is   located, either of such officers, as the case may be, may apply  to  the   supreme  court  for an injunction restraining said municipal corporation   from diverting any fresh water from the stream or  streams  above  until   such  tidewater  creek  or  estuary  shall have been put into the proper   condition as to depth and width herein provided for, and it shall be the   duty of the court to grant  such  injunction,  and  the  costs  of  such   proceeding  shall  be  paid  by the municipal corporation diverting such   stream of water.
NY Nav L § 84 (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 5 - Tidewater Navigation 84 - Application of This Article.

§ 84. Application  of  this  article.  The  provisions of this article   shall  also  apply  in  every  respect  to  any  stock  corporation   or   association,  or  any  individual  diverting  the water of a fresh water   stream which would otherwise flow into a tidewater creek or estuary, and   the service of any notice or other  paper  necessary  in  an  action  or   otherwise   shall  be  deemed  to  be  served  on  such  corporation  or   association, or on such individual, if served on the  superintendent  or   other  person in charge of the works by which the water is diverted from   such stream.
NY Nav L § 85 (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 5 - Tidewater Navigation 85 - Penalty.

§ 85. Penalty.  Any  corporation  or  individual  continuing to divert   water from such fresh water stream  without  maintaining  the  navigable   depth  of  the tidewater creek or estuary into which it flows, as herein   provided for, shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars per day  for   each  and  every  day  such  diversion  is continued, computing from the   expiration of forty days after notice is given as  provided  in  section   sixty-one,  which  penalty  may  be  sued  for  and  recovered  by  such   supervisor or village president in the name of the town  or  village  in   which such tidewater creek is so located, and the amount recovered shall   be paid into the treasury of such town or village.
NY Nav L § 86 (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 5 - Tidewater Navigation 86 - Payment by City of New York.

§ 86. Payment by city of New York. For the purpose of carrying out any   work  which may be required to be done by the city of New York under the   provisions of this article, and to provide  the  means  for  doing  such   work,  said  city  must  at  all  times make the necessary appropriation   therefor, to be levied and collected in the next annual  tax  levy.  The   commissioner  of  environmental  protection, in the city of New York, is   hereby  authorized  to  enter  into  a  contract  with  any  person   or   corporation  for  the  doing  of  said  work,  in the manner provided by   chapter thirteen of the New York city charter and  chapter  thirteen  of   the administrative code of the city of New York.
NY Nav L § 88-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 6 - Pilots and Pilotage Fees, Port of New York 88-A - Unlicensed Piloting.

§ 88-a. Unlicensed   piloting.     A  person  other  than  a  lawfully   authorized Sandy Hook pilot or a person heretofore licensed  as  a  Hell   Gate  pilot  who  pilots or offers to pilot or tows or offers to tow any   boat or vessel (except barges, vessels under fifty-five tons burden, and   canal boats actually used in navigating the canals) through that part of   the East river, commonly called Hell Gate, is guilty of  a  misdemeanor.   But no pilotage shall be charged to any vessel under a coasting license,   on  entering  or  departing from the port of New York by way of the East   river called Hell Gate unless such vessel actually employs a pilot,  and   the  making  of  such  charge or demand without such employment shall be   deemed a misdemeanor.This section does not apply to vessels owned or belonging to  citizens   of the United States, and licensed and engaged in the coasting trade.
NY Nav L § 90 (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 6 - Pilots and Pilotage Fees, Port of New York 90 - Licensing of Sandy Hook Pilots; Apprenticeship.

§ 90. Licensing  of  Sandy  Hook pilots; apprenticeship. 1. No license   shall hereafter be granted to any person to act as pilot for the port of   New York by way of Sandy Hook or by the way of Sands Point or  Execution   Rocks,  unless  the applicant shall have served an apprenticeship in the   New York Sandy Hook  pilot  service  in  the  manner  provided  in  this   section.   Subject  to  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  board  of   commissioners, the executive committee of the United New York Sandy Hook   Pilots Benevolent Association  (hereinafter  designated  the  benevolent   association) shall have sole control over all apprentices and be charged   with  the responsibility to instruct such apprentices in their duties as   Sandy Hook pilots. No other apprenticeship  shall  be  accepted  by  the   commissioners.  Application  for apprenticeship may be made to the board   of commissioners on a form to be prescribed by such  commissioners.  The   qualifications   necessary   for   an   applicant   to   enter  into  an   apprenticeship shall be prescribed by rule or regulation of the board of   commissioners. The names of all persons accepted as apprentices shall be   registered in the books of the board of commissioners and  certified  to   the benevolent association in the order of their acceptance. Apprentices   shall  serve  at least four years apprenticeship.  Each apprentice shall   be examined by  the  board  of  commissioners  upon  completion  of  his   apprenticeship  and  if  found worthy and qualified may be licensed as a   New York Sandy Hook pilot in the lowest grade then  established  by  the   commissioners.  In the event a national or other emergency shall make it   imperative to the safe movement of vessels in and out of the port of New   York by the way of Sandy Hook or by the way of Sands Point or  Execution   Rocks, that licenses to pilot such vessels be issued to persons who have   not  served the apprenticeship herein prescribed, then in that event the   board of commissioners may issue temporary pilot  licenses,  other  than   full branch licenses, to qualified persons to serve as Sandy Hook pilots   so  long  as the emergency continues or until the pilots so licensed can   be replaced by deputy pilots licenses after completion of the prescribed   term of apprenticeship.2. The commissioners, or a majority of them, shall  license  for  such   terms  as  they  may  think  proper,  as  many  pilots  as they may deem   necessary to pilot ships to and from the port of New York by the way  of   Sandy  Hook  or  by  the  way of Sands Point or Execution Rocks and such   commissioners  may  specify  in  such  licenses  different  degrees   of   qualifications appropriate to different parts or branches of pilot duty,   according  to the competency of the applicant. A license shall be denied   to any person holding  any  license  or  authority  from  or  under  the   authority of the laws of any other state.
NY Nav L § 91-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 6 - Pilots and Pilotage Fees, Port of New York 91-A - Licensing of Hudson River Pilots.

§ 91-a. Licensing  of  Hudson  river  pilots.  The commissioners, or a   majority of them, shall license,  for  such  terms  as  they  may  think   proper, as many pilots as they may deem necessary to pilot ships through   that portion of the Hudson river specified in this act, the continuation   of  the  Hudson  river,  and the main ship channel of the Upper bay, New   York harbor, east of a line from Robbins reef  light  to  the  tower  at   Staten  Island  borough  hall and down to the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge,   and such commissioners may specify in such licenses different degrees of   qualifications appropriate to different parts or branches of pilot duty,   according to the competency of the applicant.
NY Nav L § 91-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 6 - Pilots and Pilotage Fees, Port of New York 91-B - Licensing of Long Island-Block Island Sound Pilots.

§ 91-b. Licensing  of  Long  Island-Block  Island Sound Pilots. 1. The   commissioners, or a majority of them, shall license, for such  terms  as   they  may  think  proper,  as  many pilots as they may deem necessary to   pilot ships transiting the New York state waters of Long Island Sound or   Block Island Sound east of Execution Rocks or Sands Point including  any   such vessel entering or departing from any port situated in the New York   state  waters  of  Long  Island  Sound east of Execution Rocks and Sands   Point and on the continuation of Long Island Sound  to  a  line  running   from the foot of City Island Avenue on City Island southerly to Stepping   Stones  light,  and  such  commissioners  may  specify  in such licenses   different degrees of qualifications appropriate to  different  parts  or   branches of pilot duty, according to the competency of the applicant.2.  Upon  the  taking effect of this chapter, all pilots who are then,   and have been for the two  years  immediately  prior  thereto,  actively   engaged,  as  a regular occupation, in piloting seagoing vessels through   the waters  specified  in  this  chapter  shall,  upon  application,  be   licensed  as  full  branch Long Island-Block Island Sound pilots for the   waters covered by this chapter if  found  by  the  commissioners  to  be   qualified  in  accordance  with  their  regulations  in  effect on March   seventeenth, nineteen hundred seventy-one, except that any person who is   found to be so qualified who has reached his sixtieth birthday prior  to   the  effective  date  of this act shall be eligible to renew his license   until age seventy.
NY Nav L § 92 (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 6 - Pilots and Pilotage Fees, Port of New York 92 - Examination of Applicants.

§ 92. Examination   of  applicants.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the   commissioners, before they shall grant a license to any person  applying   therefor,   to  call  such  applicant  before  them,  within  one  month   thereafter, and in the presence of one or more pilots licensed  for  the   waters regarding which such applicant seeks to be examined, who shall be   notified  to attend, examine such applicant or cause him to be examined,   with relation to his qualifications for the office of pilot. In case  of   the nonattendance of any licensed pilot so notified, the examination may   be  conducted  in  his  absence.  Each  applicant  shall  be examined in   particular touching his knowledge of the tides, soundings, bearings  and   distances  of  the  several  shoals,  rocks, bars and points of land and   night lights in the navigation for which he applies for a license to act   as a pilot, and also touching any other matter  relating  thereto  which   the  commissioners  may deem proper.  If upon the examination the person   so applying shall be found to be of good moral character  and  temperate   habits,  and  possessed of sufficient ability, skill and experience, the   commissioners may grant him a license.
NY Nav L § 93 (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 6 - Pilots and Pilotage Fees, Port of New York 93 - Bond.

§ 93. Bond.  Before granting any such license, the commissioners shall   require the applicant to furnish a bond to the  people  of  this  state,   with  two sureties to be approved by such commissioners or a majority of   them, in a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars. Such  bond  shall   be  conditioned upon the diligent and faithful performance by such pilot   of his duties, and upon his obedience  to  the  rules,  regulations  and   decisions  of  the  commissioners  of  pilots.  Every such bond shall be   prosecuted in the name of the people of the state of New York, by or  in   behalf  of  the  commissioners,  provided  a  majority  of them shall so   instruct, and if any amount be collected in such suit it shall  be  paid   to  the  commissioners,  who may thereupon direct the same to be applied   for the purposes specified in subdivision two of section ninety-seven of   this article.
NY Nav L § 95 (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 6 - Pilots and Pilotage Fees, Port of New York 95 - Regulation of Pilots and Persons Employing Them.

§ 95. Regulation of pilots and persons employing them. 1. The board of   commissioners may alter or amend any existing regulation for pilots, and   make,  duly  promulgate  and  enforce  new  rules  or  regulations,  not   inconsistent with the laws of this state or of the United States,  which   shall  be  binding  and  effective  upon  all pilots licensed under this   article, and upon all parties employing such pilots.  The  commissioners   may  also  regulate  the  stationing  of  pilot boats for the purpose of   putting pilots aboard and taking of them off vessels bound to  and  from   the  port  of New York and may designate the areas in which such vessels   shall be boarded and left by such pilots. Such commissioners may declare   and enforce forfeitures of pilotage upon any mismanagement or neglect of   duty by the pilots licensed by them. Such  commissioners,  in  order  to   prevent  any  of  the pilots licensed by them from combining injuriously   with each other, or with  other  persons,  and  to  prevent  any  person   licensed  by them from acting as a pilot during his suspension, or after   his license has been revoked, may declare, impose and collect fines  and   penalties not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars for each such offense.   The commissioners may also establish and enforce all other needful rules   and  regulations for the conduct of the pilots licensed by them, and the   parties employing them.  Such  commissioners  may  enforce  and  receive   accounts  of all moneys collected for pilotage by the pilots licensed by   them and may impose and collect from such pilots  a  sum  not  exceeding   three  per  centum  on  the  amount  thereof  to  defray their necessary   expenses, including clerk hire and office rent.
NY Nav L § 98 (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 6 - Pilots and Pilotage Fees, Port of New York 98 - Application of Article.

§ 98. Application of article. The provisions of this article shall not   apply  to  vessels  navigating under a coastwise license and employed in   the coasting trade. If, however, any such vessel shall  employ  a  pilot   licensed  under  the  provisions  of  this  article, such pilot shall be   entitled to receive as compensation for his services pilotage fees in an   amount not to exceed the rates established by this article.
NY Nav L § 100 (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 7 - Motor Boat Regulation on the St. Lawrence River 100 - Definitions.

§ 100. Definitions.  Within  the provisions of this article, the words   "motor boat"  shall  be  deemed  to  mean  and  include  a  mechanically   propelled  pleasure  vessel  having  a source of power other than steam.   The words include a craft,  temporarily  or  permanently  equipped  with   detachable motors, commonly known as an "outboard" motor boat.