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2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 5 - Acquisition of Property for the Canal System › 42 - Removal of Encroachments.

§ 42. Removal of encroachments. The corporation is authorized to cause
  to  be  removed  from canal property any building, part of a building or
  structure erected, placed, maintained or otherwise occupying such  canal
  property,  if,  in  its  opinion,  the  removal  is  necessary  for  the
  improvement, use, maintenance, control, management, repair or  operation
  of  the  canal  system.  It  shall  be  the duty of any person owning or
  maintaining such a building, part of a building or structure  to  remove
  the  same  within  thirty  days from the service by the corporation upon
  said person of a notice ordering its removal. Upon the  failure  of  the
  person  so  ordered  to  remove  the  building,  part  of  a building or
  structure, the corporation may, without liability on  the  part  of  the
  state  or the corporation, take whatever action it may deem necessary to
  cause the removal. Service of the order of removal must be  personal  if
  the  person  to  be  served  can  be  found  within  the  state.  If the
  corporation shall not be able to serve such notice or cause the same  to
  be  served on the said person within the state after making a reasonable
  effort so to do, service may be made by attaching  such  notice  to  the
  said building, part of a building or structure.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 5 - Acquisition of Property for the Canal System › 43 - Exchange of Property.

§  43. Exchange of property. In order to facilitate the acquisition of
  property as defined in this article, and which, in the judgment  of  the
  corporation,  will  be  in  the  public interest and necessary for canal
  purposes, payment for such property may be made by means of an  exchange
  therefor of property found to be no longer necessary or useful as a part
  of  the  barge  canal system, or as an aid to navigation thereon, or for
  barge canal terminal purposes. The property to be so acquired  shall  be
  of  at  least  equal value to that of such property to be exchanged. The
  corporation is authorized and empowered to enter into an agreement  with
  the  owner or owners of such property to be so acquired, upon such terms
  and conditions as to such corporation shall seem appropriate and  proper
  to accomplish such purpose.
In  all  such  cases,  the  property so to be exchanged shall first be
  declared abandoned by official order  of  the  corporation  which  order
  shall  set  forth  the benefits to be obtained by such exchange. In such
  abandonment it shall be unnecessary to conform  to  the  provisions  for
  abandonment made in section fifty-one of this chapter. The agreement and
  the  title  to  the  property  to  be  acquired  shall be subject to the
  approval of the attorney-general. Upon the  approval  of  title  by  the
  attorney-general, the corporation is authorized and empowered to execute
  in the name of the people of the state of New York, a quit-claim deed to
  effectuate  such exchange, which shall be subject to the approval of the
  attorney-general. The deed so executed, before becoming effective, shall
  be recorded in the office of the secretary  of  state.  Compensation  on
  account  of  excess  value  if  any,  of  the lands so acquired shall be
  adjusted and paid in the  manner  provided  by  section  forty  of  this
  article, as in the case of property taken by appropriation.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 5 - Acquisition of Property for the Canal System › 44 - When Applied.

§  44.  When  applied. The provisions of this chapter shall not affect
  any proceeding or appropriation now pending for the acquisition  of  any
  property  for the purposes of the canal system of the state of New York,
  and  any  such  proceeding  or  appropriation  shall  be  continued   to
  termination  pursuant  to  the  statute  under  which such proceeding or
  appropriation was instituted.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 6 - Abandonment of Canal Lands › 50 - Authority to Abandon Canal Lands.

§  50.  Authority  to  abandon  canal  lands.  1.  Authority is hereby
  conferred upon the corporation to abandon any  portion  of  barge  canal
  lands,  barge  canal terminal lands, or old canal lands and appertaining
  structures constituting the  canal  system  prior  to  the  barge  canal
  improvement, which have or may become no longer necessary or useful as a
  part  of the barge canal system, as an aid to navigation thereon, or for
  barge canal  terminal  purposes.  This  authority,  however,  shall  not
  include  the  abandonment of a barge canal terminal unless such terminal
  has been by a special act of the legislature  previously  determined  to
  have  become  no longer necessary or useful as a part of the barge canal
  system, as an aid to navigation thereon, or  for  barge  canal  terminal
  purposes.
2.  Abandonments  authorized pursuant to this section shall be subject
  to the provisions of  subdivision  seventeen  of  section  ten  of  this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 6 - Abandonment of Canal Lands › 51 - Method of Abandonment.

§ 51. Method of abandonment. Prior to the exercising of such authority
  of  abandonment,  however,  the  corporation shall cause a notice of any
  proposed abandonment to be transmitted  to  the  commission  and  to  be
  published  once  each  week  for  three  successive weeks in a newspaper
  published in the county wherein such lands are located, except that such
  publication shall appear in a newspaper published in the municipality or
  locality wherein such lands  are  located  when  there  is  a  newspaper
  published  in  such municipality or locality. Such notice shall describe
  the lands proposed to be abandoned with sufficient certainty to identify
  them and invite interested parties to  file  written  statements  either
  supporting  or opposing the proposed abandonment. Upon the expiration of
  the period of publishing said notice, when  it  is  the  case  that  the
  assessment  for  such  lands  proposed  for  abandonment  is equal to or
  greater than fifty  thousand  dollars,  the  corporation  shall  hold  a
  hearing  at  which  evidence  or further information may be submitted. A
  record shall be made of all evidence submitted at such  hearing.  If  no
  hearing shall appear to the corporation to be warranted or subsequent to
  such  hearing, should one be held, the corporation may in its discretion
  declare such lands abandoned for the purposes of the canal  system.  The
  corporation shall thereupon issue an official order abandoning the lands
  for  canal  purposes  together  with  a map and description of the lands
  abandoned and dispose of any portion of canal lands  so  abandoned.  Any
  money  realized  from  the sale of such land shall be deposited into the
  canal fund.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 6 - Abandonment of Canal Lands › 53 - Sale of Abandoned Lands for Railroad Bridges.

§ 53. Sale of abandoned lands for railroad bridges. Whenever any canal
  lands,  as  defined  in  article  one  of  this chapter, are required in
  connection with any railroad bridge which has been or  which  is  to  be
  constructed,  reconstructed  or  raised by or for a railroad corporation
  over that portion of the barge canal, which has been or  which  will  be
  improved by the use of moneys allotted or to be allotted to the state by
  the   federal   government   in  accordance  with  chapter  six  hundred
  eighty-eight  of  the  laws  of  nineteen   hundred   thirty-four,   the
  corporation  may  issue an official order abandoning the lands for canal
  purposes. Upon a  written  request  by  the  railroad  corporation,  and
  notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  any  general  or  special law, the
  corporation is authorized to grant and convey such land to said railroad
  corporation for and on behalf of the people of the state of New York for
  the purposes mentioned and for a nominal or other consideration and upon
  such terms and conditions which he shall deem to be  beneficial  to  the
  state.  Such  instrument  of grant and conveyance shall become effective
  when it is recorded in the office of the secretary of state. Any  moneys
  realized  from  the  sale of such land shall be deposited into the canal
  fund.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 6-A - Leasing of Canal Lands › 55 - Authority to Lease Land.

§   55.  Authority  to  lease  land.  1.  The  corporation  is  hereby
  authorized, after review and comment by the commission as to consistency
  with the canal recreationway  plan  approved  pursuant  to  section  one
  hundred  thirty-eight-c  of  this  chapter  and  section  three  hundred
  eighty-two of the public authorities law, to enter into leases of  canal
  lands,  canal  terminals,  and canal terminal lands which are consistent
  with the canal recreationway plan. Such  review  and  comment  shall  be
  provided  within  the  time  period  set  forth in the procedures of the
  commission established pursuant to section one hundred thirty-eight-b of
  this chapter which shall be no more than sixty days.
2. Lands to be leased shall be determined by the corporation  to  have
  no essential purpose for navigation.
3.  Leases  of  canal  lands, canal terminals and canal terminal lands
  shall be for purposes which are consistent with the New York state canal
  recreationway  plan   approved   pursuant   to   section   one   hundred
  thirty-eight-c  of  this chapter and section three hundred eighty-two of
  the public authorities law.
4. The corporation shall consider  fully  completed  applications  for
  leases  of canal lands, canal terminals and canal terminal lands in such
  form and manner as the corporation shall prescribe.
5. Canal lands, canal terminals and canal terminal  lands  within  the
  Adirondack park shall not be leased.
6.  The  corporation  shall  provide  assistance, including reasonable
  access to lands, as may be necessary to assist potential  applicants  in
  preparing an application.
7.  The  corporation  may  require an applicant for a lease to provide
  necessary property surveys, environmental studies, maps and photographs,
  site plans and such other documents and studies as the  corporation  may
  determine  to  be  necessary  to ascertain the compatibility of proposed
  development with the New York state canal recreationway plan and for the
  corporation to select a qualified lessee.
8. Revenues realized from the lease of canal  lands,  canal  terminals
  and canal terminal lands shall be deposited into the canal fund.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 6-A - Leasing of Canal Lands › 56 - Conditions and Terms of Leases.

§  56.  Conditions  and terms of leases. Leases for canal lands, canal
  terminals and canal terminal lands shall include:
1. the period of time for such leases, provided that the initial  term
  of  such  leases may not exceed forty years, and renewals of such leases
  may not exceed an additional forty years beyond such initial terms;
2. requirements that the  lessee  take  no  actions  or  construct  no
  improvements  that  will  interfere  with navigation, except that if the
  corporation determines that  any  potential  adverse  interference  with
  navigation can be reasonably mitigated, the corporation shall include in
  the lease such requirements as may be necessary to effectuate mitigation
  of impediments to navigation;
3.  proper  covenants  to assure the payment of adequate consideration
  for the interests leased, and to  further  protect  the  state  and  the
  corporation as is deemed necessary by the corporation;
4.  provisions  requiring  that payments on the lease shall be paid to
  the corporation;
5. provisions relating to public access, where feasible, to lands  and
  waters  of  the  canal system; provided however that the corporation may
  require that public access  be  restricted  in  those  cases  where  the
  corporation  determines  that  public  safety  will  be  served  by such
  restriction;
6.  provisions  providing  a  right  of  entry  for   commission   and
  corporation members and personnel and equipment for canal purposes; and
7.  such  other terms as the corporation shall determine are necessary
  and  appropriate  for  the  implementation  of  this  article  and   the
  preservation of the state's interest in the canal system.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 6-A - Leasing of Canal Lands › 57 - Special Conditions for Leases Entered Prior to Approval of Canal Recreationway Plan.

§ 57. Special conditions for leases entered prior to approval of canal
  recreationway  plan. 1. In the period between the effective date of this
  section  and  the  completion  of  the  canal  recreationway  plan,  the
  commission  shall  review and comment on proposed leases with respect to
  the consistency of such leases with  the  provisions  of  this  article.
  Where  local  zoning  laws  and zoning ordinances are in effect on lands
  proposed to be leased or on lands adjacent to those lands proposed to be
  leased, during such period the commission shall also review and  comment
  on  proposed leases with respect to the compatibility of such leases, to
  the extent practicable, with the requirements of such local zoning  laws
  and zoning ordinances.
2. In addition to the other applicable provisions of this article, the
  corporation  shall  ensure  that:  (a)  the lease will benefit the canal
  system by effectuating the development of the canal as a  recreationway;
  (b)  the  lease  will foster a canal system characterized by clusters of
  development and stretches of undeveloped open space which  is  conducive
  to  the  preservation  of waterfowl, fish and wildlife habitats; and (c)
  may encourage the use of historic buildings, sites and districts  listed
  on or eligible for the state or national registers of historic places.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 7 - Bridges and Highways › 60 - Alteration of County Roads or Town Highways.

§  60.  Alteration  of  county  roads  or  town highways. Whenever the
  commissioner of transportation shall deem it necessary to discontinue or
  alter any part  of  a  county  road  or  town  highway  because  of  its
  interference with the proper location or construction of any work on the
  canal  system either of improvment, maintance, or repair he shall direct
  such discontinuance or alteration to be made and file in the  office  of
  the  clerk  of  the  county  or  town  in  which such road or highway is
  situate, an accurate description of the part of such road or highway  so
  discontinued  and of the one laid out anew. From the time of filing such
  description such road or highway shall be considered so altered. The use
  of such old road or highway shall not be discontinued until the new road
  or highway is declared open  for  public  use  by  the  commissioner  of
  transportation,  and a certificate to such effect filed in the office of
  the clerk of the county or  town  in  which  said  road  or  highway  is
  located. Every alteration made on any public road located upon the canal
  system before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine
  shall be deemed valid in law from the time of such alteration.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 7 - Bridges and Highways › 61 - Farm and Road Bridges.

§  61.  Farm  and road bridges.  The commissioner of transportation is
  authorized and required to maintain until April first, nineteen  hundred
  fifty-four,  at  public  expense  farm, road and street bridges over the
  canal system, in all places where such bridges were constructed prior to
  the twentieth day of April, eighteen hundred  thirty-nine,  if,  in  his
  opinion,  the public convenience requires that they should be continued,
  whether heretofore maintained at the expense of  the  state  or  of  the
  counties,  towns,  villages and cities where they are situate, provided,
  however, that commencing on the first day  of  April,  nineteen  hundred
  fifty-four,   and   continuing   thereafter,  the  maintenance,  repair,
  improvement, replacement or closing of any such bridge over any  section
  of  the  canal  heretofore abandoned or which may hereafter be abandoned
  shall be governed by the provisions of the highway law, except that  any
  such  bridges situate in a city shall be maintained, repaired, improved,
  replaced or closed in the same manner and subject to the same provisions
  of law as apply to other streets and bridges in such city.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 7 - Bridges and Highways › 63 - Maintenance by State of Alteration to Certain Highway Bridges Not State Owned.

§  63.  Maintenance  by state of alteration to certain highway bridges
  not state owned.  When in the canalization of a natural waterway to form
  a part of the canal system it has been or may be necessary to  alter  an
  existing  highway bridge spanning the canalized portion of the waterway,
  the maintenance and repair of the additional or new  part  or  parts  of
  such  bridge  structure  which  may  have  been  or  may be necessary in
  altering the bridge to meet the requirements of navigation, shall be  an
  obligation  of  the state. The commissioner of transportation shall have
  supervision and direction over such maintenance or repairs, the cost  of
  which  shall  be  defrayed from moneys appropriated for the improvement,
  maintenance and repair of the canal system.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 7 - Bridges and Highways › 64 - Commutation for Bridges.

§ 64. Commutation for bridges.  The commissioner of transportation may
  commute  with  owners and claimants of bridges over any canal, by paying
  such owner or claimant such sum in lieu of a bridge as may be agreed  on
  between  the claimant and the commissioner of transportation. If, in the
  opinion of the commissioner of transportation, a bridge  should  not  be
  rebuilt,  and the amount to be paid be not agreed upon, the bridge shall
  not be built, but the damages sustained by such owner by being  deprived
  of  such bridge and which the state under all the circumstances ought of
  right to pay, shall be ascertained in the same manner as damages for the
  appropriation of real property, for the use of the canal and paid by the
  commissioner of transportation, on the approval of the attorney-general.
  If the damages claimed are for the deprivation of  a  bridge  which  the
  claimant  had  before constructed or maintained, the circumstance of his
  being  equitably  bound  to  contribute   proportionately   toward   the
  construction  and  maintenance of an enlarged bridge shall be taken into
  consideration and a proper amount of  that  account  shall  be  set  off
  against any damage to which the claimant might otherwise be entitled.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 7 - Bridges and Highways › 65 - Private Road in Lieu of Farm Bridges.

§  65.  Private  road in lieu of farm bridges.  If the commissioner of
  transportation cannot agree with the owner of a farm bridge  spanning  a
  canal  as  to  the  amount of commutation in any case where he is of the
  opinion that the state should erect such bridge, and the commissioner of
  transportation determines that a private road  through  adjoining  lands
  will  sufficiently accommodate such owner, and that the same can be laid
  out with economy to the state, he may take the necessary action  to  lay
  out  a  private  road  for the accommodation of the owner, in the manner
  prescribed by law for laying out private roads and pay to the  owner  of
  the lands through which the same is laid out, the damages assessed.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 7 - Bridges and Highways › 66 - Restrictions on the Construction of Farm and Road Bridges.

§  66.  Restrictions  on the construction of farm and road bridges.  A
  person shall not be entitled to demand a farm bridge across a  canal  or
  feeder  where  the  necessity  of  convenience of such bridge shall have
  arisen from the division or acquisition of property  subsequent  to  the
  location  of  such canal or feeder. A street or road bridge shall not be
  constructed by the  commissioner  of  transportation  over  a  canal  or
  feeder,  except  upon  such streets or roads as were laid out, worked or
  used, previously to the construction of the canal or  feeder,  by  which
  such  street  or road is obstructed; and when bridges are constructed or
  reconstructed upon any such streets or roads,  the  cost  to  the  state
  shall  in  no  case  be  more than is required to preserve in a safe and
  substantial manner the continuity of such streets or roads so as not  to
  unnecessarily  impair  their  usefulness. When a bridge of a more costly
  nature is desired by the local authorities of a city,  town  or  village
  within  whose  corporate  limits a bridge is to be built or rebuilt, the
  commissioner of transportation, on presentation to  him  by  such  local
  authorities  of  plans  and  specifications for such bridge and approval
  thereof by him shall estimate and determine the proportion of the  cost,
  which,  in  order  to preserve the continuity of such streets and roads,
  the  state  ought  equitably  to  pay,  and  file  such   estimate   and
  determination in his office and a duplicate thereof in the office of the
  clerk of such city, town or village. If a private road or public highway
  is  laid  out  by  legal  authority  in such direction as to require the
  erection of a new bridge over a canal for the accommodation of the road,
  such bridge shall be  so  constructed  and  forever  maintained  at  the
  expense of the town, village or city in which it shall be situated.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 7 - Bridges and Highways › 67 - Construction of Bridges by Municipal Corporations.

§  67.  Construction of bridges by municipal corporations.  The common
  council of any city may provide by ordinance for the erection of a lift,
  hoist or swing bridge over a canal at any street in such city, on  plans
  and  specifications  approved  by the commissioner of transportation. If
  the commissioner of transportation shall consent  to  such  erection  he
  shall  file  such  consent  with  the clerk of such common council. Such
  bridge shall be built, operated and maintained under the supervision and
  control of the commissioner of transportation, but  at  the  expense  of
  such  city  or  of  the property adjudged by the common council to be so
  benefited.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 7 - Bridges and Highways › 68 - Bridges Spanning Canal Channels.

§  68. Bridges spanning canal channels.  1. When a bridge spanning the
  Oswego canal or that portion of the Erie canal between the Hudson  river
  and its junction with the Oswego canal, is to be reconstructed, or a new
  bridge  is  to  be  built  over  such sections of the canal system, such
  reconstructed or new bridge shall be so built  as  to  provide  a  clear
  passageway  between  the  bottom clearance line of the bridge, if of the
  fixed type, or the bottom clearance line when raised, if of the  movable
  type, and the surface of the water at its highest navigable stage of not
  less  than twenty feet.  When a bridge spanning the Champlain canal, the
  Cayuga and Seneca canals, or that portion of the Erie canal westerly  of
  Three  Rivers is to be reconstructed or a new bridge is to be built over
  such sections of the canal system,  such  reconstructed  or  new  bridge
  shall  be  so  built as to provide a clear passageway between the bottom
  clearance line of the bridge, if  of  the  fixed  type,  or  the  bottom
  clearance  line  when raised, if of the movable type, and the surface of
  the water at its highest navigable stage, of not less than  fifteen  and
  one-half  feet.   The commissioner of transportation may, however, if in
  his judgment the additional cost is not unreasonable, require that  such
  bridges  be  reconstructed  or constructed to provide a clearance of not
  less than twenty feet or that the substructure  of  such  bridge  be  so
  constructed that the superstructure may be raised to provide a clearance
  of twenty feet without rebuilding the foundation of said substructure.
2.  The  provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply
  to the reconstruction of the State Street bridge, Seneca  Street  bridge
  and  the Buffalo Street bridge, all over the Cayuga inlet in the city of
  Ithaca, county of Tompkins.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 7 - Bridges and Highways › 69 - Damages Caused by Excessive Loads.

§   69.  Damages  caused  by  excessive  loads.  The  commissioner  of
  transportation shall cause, where required, the posting of  all  bridges
  under  his  jurisdiction  located on the canal system in conformity with
  the provisions of the vehicle and traffic law.  Upon  all  such  bridges
  incapable  of  safely  carrying legal loads as prescribed in such law or
  where the overhead clearance is less than the legal height  of  fourteen
  feet,  the  commissioner  of transportation shall have displayed on both
  ends of such bridge signs stating the safe carrying capacity  and  legal
  clearance  of  such  structure, all in accordance with the provisions of
  section three hundred eighty-five of the vehicle  and  traffic  law.  No
  person  shall cause to be transported over such a bridge a vehicle whose
  load is in excess of that shown upon the posted sign or whose height  is
  in  excess  of  the  legal  clearance  as shown on such posted sign. Any
  person violating the above provisions shall be subject to the  penalties
  imposed  under  section  three  hundred  eighty-five  of the vehicle and
  traffic law and in addition thereto shall be liable for all  damages  to
  such structure resulting from violation of such law. The commissioner of
  transportation  is  hereby authorized and directed to proceed, on behalf
  of  the  people  of  the  state,  to  cause  to  be  recovered,  by  the
  attorney-general  in  an  appropriate  action  in any court of competent
  jurisdiction, the amount of damages sustained and expenses  incurred  by
  the state in consequence of such violation.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 7 - Bridges and Highways › 69-A - Changes in Bridges and Highways on or Over Canals and Canal Lands.

§  69-a.  Changes  in bridges and highways on or over canals and canal
  lands. The commissioner of transportation shall notify  the  corporation
  as to any changes planned for the bridges and highways on or over canals
  and canal lands which may have an impact on canal operations.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 70 - Cargo Statement.

§  70.  Cargo  statement.  The  master  of any float shall furnish the
  corporation or its representative a true statement of the  quantity  and
  description of the lading of such float, specifying the place from which
  it  departed  and  to  which  it  is destined. Any master who refuses to
  comply with any provision of this section shall forfeit to the people of
  the state a penalty not to exceed one hundred dollars,  which  shall  be
  paid into the canal fund.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 71 - Registry of Canal Floats.

§ 71. Registry of canal floats. The owner of every commercial float to
  be  navigated  on  the  canal  system  shall  make  application  to  the
  corporation  for  a  New  York  state  certificate  of   registry.   The
  application  shall  be  in  form prescribed by the corporation and shall
  contain such information as the corporation may deem essential for  full
  and complete identification of the float and the owner thereof. It shall
  be  signed by the owner if an individual, or by an officer of a company,
  partnership or corporation if so owned. Upon receipt of  an  application
  in proper form, the corporation shall assign a state registry number and
  issue  to  the owner a certificate of New York state registry, a copy of
  which shall be entered in the records of its office.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 72 - Change of Ownership, Name or Hailing Place.

§  72.  Change  of  ownership,  name  or  hailing  place.  Should  the
  ownership, name or hailing place of a float change after state registry,
  the owner of the float shall make new application  in  form  similar  to
  that required for original registry and upon receipt of such application
  the  corporation  shall  issue  a  new state certificate of registry and
  record the same in its office. The owner or owners of a commercial float
  found navigating the canal system, the ownership, name or hailing  place
  of  which  shall  have  been  changed  without  proper  application  for
  re-registry to the corporation, shall, upon due proof thereof be subject
  to a penalty to the people of the state of New York not  to  exceed  one
  hundred  dollars recoverable by the attorney general in an action in any
  court of competent jurisdiction.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 73 - Registered Owner to Be Advised of Assessments and Penalties.

§ 73. Registered owner to be advised of assessments and penalties. The
  corporation  shall  advise  the  person whose name appears on the latest
  application for registry on file  in  its  office  of  any  assessments,
  penalties  or  other charges levied against a float or its crew for acts
  or omissions occurring while the float is on the  canal  system.  Should
  the  registered  owner  fail to make prompt payment of such assessments,
  penalties or charges, the corporation may refuse clearance to the  float
  and action shall be instigated as provided under section eighty-three of
  this article.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 74 - List of Registered Floats to Be Prepared.

§  74. List of registered floats to be prepared. The corporation shall
  make a list of all floats  to  which  New  York  state  certificates  of
  registry have been issued. This list shall be corrected at least once in
  each  calendar  year and a copy of such corrected list shall be filed in
  the office of each of the district  engineers  having  supervision  over
  portions  of  the canal system. The list shall be filed in the office of
  the corporation and shall  be  available  to  public  inspection  within
  regular office hours.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 75 - Clearance and Ownership.

§  75.  Clearance  and  ownership. Every commercial float shall have a
  clearance. Clearances may be obtained at such  places  along  the  canal
  system  and  at  such  other  points  as  the corporation may direct. No
  clearance shall be granted to any commercial  float  unless  the  person
  authorized  to issue such clearance has evidence that such float is duly
  registered in the office of the corporation. Each  float  shall  have  a
  separate  clearance and no part of the cargo shall be cleared to a place
  beyond  which  the  float  is  cleared.  The  corporation  may,  in  its
  discretion,  refuse  to  issue  a  clearance  for a vessel against whose
  registered owner there is an unpaid penalty involving  such  vessel  for
  the violation of rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 76 - Regulations With Respect to Clearance.

§ 76. Regulations with respect to clearance. No commercial float shall
  proceed  beyond  the place to which it is cleared, nor unload any of its
  cargo, before or after  its  arrival,  at  the  place  from  which  such
  articles  are  cleared,  nor  proceed beyond such place until the master
  thereof delivers the clearance of such float or articles to  the  person
  designated  by  the  corporation  to  receive the same, at the place for
  which they are cleared. If there is no canal  official  at  such  place,
  then  to the canal official whose office shall be passed by the float in
  the order of its voyage, and receive permission from such canal official
  to proceed to the place to which it is cleared.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 77 - Copy of Clearance.

§  77.  Copy  of  clearance.  The  corporation,  or its representative
  issuing a clearance or with whom  a  clearance  is  filed,  shall,  when
  requested,  furnish  a  copy  thereof, with any additional cargo entered
  thereupon and the several indorsements, if any, which  copy  shall  have
  the  same validity and effect as the original clearance of which it is a
  copy.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 78 - Assignment of Berths for Loading or Unloading.

§  78.  Assignment of berths for loading or unloading. The corporation
  or its representative may assign berths to all floats while  loading  or
  unloading  at  any  landing  place  upon  a canal and determine disputes
  concerning same. The  corporation,  shall,  as  to  any  of  the  locks,
  terminals or mooring places of the canal system used by floats, regulate
  and  station  such  floats  for  the  best  interest  of navigation. The
  corporation may determine how far and  in  what  instances  masters  and
  other persons having charge of any float shall accommodate each other in
  their  respective  anchorages.  If  any  master  or  other person having
  control of any float within the limits of such waters shall  neglect  or
  refuse to obey the directions of the corporation, or its representative,
  in  any such matters within its authority, or shall resist or oppose the
  corporation in the execution of the said duties, such  person  shall  be
  liable  to  a  penalty not to exceed one hundred dollars, recoverable by
  the corporation in any court of competent jurisdiction, and payable into
  the canal fund.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 79 - Floating Elevators.

§ 79. Floating elevators. Any person owning or leasing, in whole or in
  part, any floating elevator used for loading grain, coal, sand, or other
  material,  shall,  upon  application  to  and  in  the discretion of the
  corporation, be assigned a place for and permitted to keep said floating
  elevator in the waters of the canal system of this state, at such  point
  as  may  be  most  convenient  for and for such period of time as may be
  necessary for the transaction of the business of  loading  or  unloading
  grain,  coal,  sand,  or other material, shipped or to be shipped on the
  canals; provided, however, that such floating elevator  shall  cause  no
  obstruction  to  the  free  and uninterrupted use of the canal system by
  floats navigating thereon. While such elevators are in  operation,  they
  shall  be  equipped  with  such device or devices as the corporation may
  determine to prevent the material being loaded  or  unloaded  from  such
  float, from falling into such waters.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 80 - Supplying Deficiencies of Water.

§  80. Supplying deficiencies of water. Whenever the navigation of any
  part of the canal system is endangered by  reason  of  a  deficiency  of
  water, the corporation shall, without delay, supply such deficiency. For
  that  purpose it shall resume the temporary use of all the surplus water
  leased, licensed or withdrawn under revocable permit from  the  part  of
  the  canal  system  where  such  deficiency  exists. If there still be a
  deficiency of water, it may enter upon and use all  lands,  streams  and
  waters  which, in its judgment, may be necessary or proper to be used to
  procure a temporary supply of water for such part of the  canal  system.
  The  corporation may enter into an agreement with the owner or owners of
  any property used for such temporary purpose under this section covering
  the amount of damage sustained. Such  agreement  when  approved  by  the
  attorney-general  shall become an obligation of the corporation and paid
  from moneys available therefor. In case no agreement is consummated  the
  amount of damages sustained may be determined as provided in section one
  hundred  twenty of this chapter. No damages shall be allowed in any case
  for resuming the use of any surplus water which has been withdrawn under
  lease, license or revocable permit.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 81 - Deposit of Refuse in Navigable Waters.

§  81.  Deposit of refuse in navigable waters. It shall be unlawful to
  throw from or otherwise deposit, either from or out of any float or from
  the shore, wharf, manufacturing  establishment  or  mill  of  any  kind,
  refuse or other matter of any description, into any of the waters of the
  canal  system  or into any waters dredged at public expense and used for
  canal purposes. Every person that shall violate the provisions  of  this
  section shall be subject to damages to the amount as will compensate the
  corporation  for  the  expenses involved in restoring such waters to its
  useful condition to meet the needs of canal navigation. It shall also be
  unlawful for any person to obstruct the navigation of  a  canal  by  the
  improper  mooring,  management  or conduct of a float, or by placing any
  obstruction on the banks thereof.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 82 - Seizure of Obstruction.

§  82.  Seizure of obstruction. The corporation may cause to be seized
  and removed any object, article, float or sunken thing found within  the
  limits  of  the canal system not under the care or charge of any person.
  It shall sell or offer for sale all seized objects, articles, floats  or
  sunken  things  either  before  or  after  their  removal,  as  it deems
  essential for maintenance of the canal system.  The  sale  shall  be  at
  public  auction  after  giving ten days' written notice of such proposed
  sale conspicuously posted at two public places in the city or town where
  such object, article, float or sunken thing is found unless  before  the
  time  of such sale the owner thereof appears and claims same and pays to
  the corporation the cost and expense which has been incurred  by  it  in
  connection  with  the  seizure,  removal  and  proposed  sale. The owner
  thereof shall be liable for  the  cost  and  expense  of  such  seizure,
  removal  and  sale  of  the  said object, article, float or sunken thing
  which cost and expense may be recovered by the  attorney-general  in  an
  appropriate  action  or  proceeding brought in the name of the people of
  the state in any court of competent jurisdiction.  The  avails  of  such
  sale  shall  be  accounted  for  by the corporation to the department of
  taxation and finance which may on the application of the owner and  upon
  due proof of ownership pay over such proceeds to him after deducting all
  costs,  expenses and reasonable charges of the seizure, removal and sale
  thereof. Whenever in the opinion of the corporation  the  navigation  or
  operation  of any part of the canal system is interrupted or endangered,
  the corporation may cause to be cut up, destroyed or  otherwise  removed
  any object, article, float or sunken thing in or partly in the waters of
  the   canal   system  which  may,  in  its  judgment,  be  causing  such
  interruption or damage. The corporation may enter into an agreement with
  the owner or owners of any property so cut up, destroyed,  or  otherwise
  removed,  covering  the  amount of damage sustained. Such agreement when
  approved by the attorney-general  shall  become  an  obligation  of  the
  corporation  and  paid  from  moneys  available  therefor.  In  case  no
  agreement is  consummated,  the  amount  of  damages  sustained  may  be
  determined as provided in section one hundred twenty of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 83 - Liability of Float for Penalty, Detention and Sale Thereof.

§  83.  Liability  of  float  for penalty, detention and sale thereof.
  Every penalty and forfeiture prescribed  by  this  chapter  against  the
  owner, master or other person having charge of any float, when incurred,
  shall  be  chargeable  on  such  float,  and  an action for the recovery
  thereof may be brought against any person in the  possession  or  having
  charge  thereof  at  the  time  when  it  is commenced; and any court or
  judicial officer issuing the process for the  commencement  of  such  an
  action,  may,  by  a  clause  to be inserted therein, direct the officer
  executing the same, to detain such  float  or  its  appurtenances  until
  action is determined or until adequate security is given for the payment
  of any judgment recoverable. If such security be given, or the defendant
  in  the  action  prevail,  such court or officer shall order the boat or
  other float and property detained to be released. If no such security be
  given and a judgment be recovered for such penalty  or  forfeiture,  and
  not  immediately  paid,  an  execution  shall  be issued under which the
  property so detained may be sold in like manner as if the  judgment  had
  been obtained against the owner thereof.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 84 - Damage Caused by Termination of Canal Navigation.

§ 84. Damage caused by termination of canal navigation. No part of the
  canal  system  of the state which was improved pursuant to chapter seven
  hundred ten  of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred  seven  and  the  acts
  supplemental  thereto  and  amendatory  thereof,  shall  be abandoned or
  navigation thereof permanently closed,  nor  shall  the  state  cede  or
  transfer ownership, jurisdiction or control thereof to the United States
  pursuant  to  authority conferred by constitutional amendment, until the
  expiration of one year after the corporation shall have been  authorized
  and  empowered by law to cause a notice of intention to take such action
  to be published once in each month during such  year  in  at  least  one
  newspaper  published  in  each county adjacent to the part of such canal
  system affected by such notice. Each person, who, at  the  time  of  the
  first  publication  of  such  notice, is the owner of a commercial float
  registered pursuant to the provisions of this  chapter,  which,  at  the
  close  of  navigation  in such year, shall have been actually engaged in
  the navigation of the part of such canal system  so  abandoned,  closed,
  ceded  or transferred, or so relinquished to the jurisdiction or control
  of the United States, may present a claim for damages against the  state
  including  the  corporation  to a court of competent jurisdiction, which
  court  shall  hear  and  determine  the  liability  of  the  corporation
  therefor;  and, if the court shall find that such person has suffered or
  sustained damages  by  reason  of  such  abandonment,  closing,  ceding,
  transfer, or relinquishment which the corporation, in right and justice,
  or  in law or equity, is obligated to pay, such damages shall constitute
  a valid and legal claim against the  corporation,  and  the  corporation
  shall be deemed liable therefor, and the court may make an award to such
  person  and  render  a  judgment in his favor against the corporation in
  such sums as it shall find to be just and equitable. It is  declared  to
  be  the purpose of this section to encourage and induce the construction
  of boats for use upon such canal system and their operation thereon  and
  to  protect  from  loss, financial investments made in such construction
  and operation caused by an abrupt, permanent termination of  navigation,
  or  the  creation  of  conditions, which would result in the impairment,
  limitation or destruction of navigation of such  canal  system  by  such
  floats.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 8 - Canal Navigation › 85 - Rules and Regulations.

§  85.  Rules  and  regulations.  The  corporation shall prescribe and
  enforce rules and regulations,  not  inconsistent  with  law,  governing
  navigation on the canals and for the use of the terminals connected with
  the  canals  and  for  the  use of all other property of the corporation
  under the corporation's control and maintained as a part  of  the  canal
  system.  The  corporation  shall  provide  rules and regulations for the
  government  of  all  employees  under  its  control,  engaged   in   the
  improvement,  repair  and maintenance of the canals. It shall cause such
  rules and regulations to be printed and a copy filed in  the  office  of
  the  department  of  state  and  a  sufficient number distributed to the
  various district engineers and other field officers to be kept in  their
  respective offices for public inspection.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 9 - Canal Accounts › 90 - Record of Operating Expenses.

§  90.  Record  of  operating  expenses. The corporation shall keep an
  accurate account of all moneys appropriated by the legislature  for  the
  improvement,  maintenance,  repair and operation of the canal system and
  shall cause to be prepared and filed in the office of the corporation on
  or about January first of each year, a statement showing all such moneys
  appropriated and how expended during  the  preceding  fiscal  year.  The
  corporation shall keep an accurate account of the recoveries made in all
  actions brought by it or at its direction, for the recovery of penalties
  or  damages under authority of this chapter and of the cost and expenses
  thereof and pay into the canal fund the amount of  all  such  recoveries
  and account for the same with the department of audit and control.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 9 - Canal Accounts › 91 - Tonnage Statistics.

§  91.  Tonnage  statistics. The corporation shall collect and compile
  accurate records of the tonnage transported on the  canals  during  each
  season  of  navigation.  Such  data,  together  with all other necessary
  information relative  to  canal  transportation  shall  be  arranged  in
  convenient form and furnished to those interested. The corporation shall
  publish  from time to time such data and information as, in its opinion,
  will promote and encourage commerce on the canals.
2023 New York Laws › CAL - Canal › Article 9 - Canal Accounts › 92 - Annual Report.

§ 92. Annual report. The corporation shall during the month of January
  make  a  report  to  the  legislature  covering  the  activities  of the
  corporation with respect to the canal system for the preceding  calendar
  year  ending  December thirty-first, including therein details as to the
  tonnage transported upon the canals of the state, the condition  of  the
  canals,  and  the work and improvements connected therewith; the several
  amounts of moneys appropriated and expended during the preceding  fiscal
  year  and  submit  recommendations  of  such measures in relation to the
  canals as, in its judgment, the public interest requires.