NY Exec L § 922 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EXC - Executive Article 42 - Waterfront Revitalization of Coastal Areas and Inland Waterways 922 - Comprehensive Harbor Management Plans.

§ 922. Comprehensive harbor management plans. 1. In order to implement a  comprehensive  harbor management plan the local legislative body of a city, town or village  may  adopt,  amend  and  enforce  local  laws  or ordinances,  not  inconsistent with the laws of this state or the United States, to regulate the construction,  size  and  location  of  wharves, docks,   moorings,  piers,  jetties,  platforms,  breakwaters  or  other structures, temporary or permanent, in, on or above waters and  the  use of surface waters and underwater lands within a city, town or village or bounding  a  city, town or village to a distance of fifteen hundred feet from the shore. Such local  laws  or  ordinances  may  provide  for  the imposition of fees for reasonable expenses incurred by the city, town or village in carrying out this regulatory authority.   2. No 1oca1 1aw or ordinance adopted pursuant to the powers granted by this section shall take effect until it shall have been submitted to and approved  in writing by the secretary of state, nor shall such 1oca1 1aw or ordinance affect projects and facilities undertaken or constructed by public authorities for which a statutory exemption has been provided  or public   authorities  formed  by  compact  with  another  state  or  any subsidiary  thereof  formed  pursuant  to  bi-state   legislation.   The secretary  of state shall not approve any local law or ordinance without first consulting with the commissioner of  general  services  and  other interested  state  agencies  administering state-owned lands underwater, nor shall the secretary approve  any  local  law  or  ordinance  not  in accordance with any comprehensive harbor management plan adopted as part of  a  local  waterfront revitalization program by the local legislative body of the city, town or village and approved by the secretary pursuant to this article.   3. (a) Municipalities on lakes, other than those lakes  identified  in subdivision  four  of  section nine hundred eleven of this article, may, pursuant to this section, develop cooperative lakewide local  waterfront revitalization programs and harbor management plans.  (b)  Where  no  local  waterfront  revitalization  program  and harbor management plan exists which has been cooperatively prepared by  all  of the  municipalities which border the shores of such a lake, no local law or ordinance adopted by one  such  municipality  pursuant  to  a  harbor management  plan shall be approved without a finding by the secretary of state that the local law or ordinance is consistent  as  well  with  the management  of the lake by, and interests of, the lake residents and its municipalities as a whole.  (c) Where an organization or entity has been  created  by  statute  to provide  lakewide  planning or regulation, such local laws or ordinances shall be consistent with the plans developed  by  such  organization  or entity pursuant to the procedures required in such statute.   4.  No  provision  of  this  chapter  shall  be deemed to diminish the authority of any city, town or village pertaining to the  regulation  of harbors,  surface  waters and underwater lands granted by any other law, charter, patent or other instrument. Nor shall it be read  to  authorize local  harbor  management  plans  displacing  conforming water-dependent businesses in existence on the effective date of this section.   5. Any conveyances of  interests  pursuant  to  subdivision  seven  of section  seventy-five  of  the  public  lands law and any permits issued pursuant to subdivision one of  section  15-0503  of  the  environmental conservation law shall be consistent, insofar as possible, with approved comprehensive harbor management plans adopted pursuant to this section.