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2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 2 - Public Vessels › 64-A - Suspension and Revocation of Licenses.

§ 64-a. Suspension  and  revocation  of licenses. 1. The inspector may
  suspend or revoke any license of master, pilot, engineer or joint  pilot
  and  engineer,  issued  pursuant to the provisions of this article, upon
  satisfactory  proof   of   recklessness,   carelessness,   intemperance,
  incompetence,  wilful  dereliction of duty or wilful disobedience of any
  rule or regulation duly made and promulgated by the commissioner.
2. It shall  be  the  duty  of  the  inspector  to  receive  and  make
  determination  on  complaints  duly  made in writing against any master,
  pilot, engineer, or joint pilot and engineer licensed  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  this  article  where it appears that the license of such
  person may be subject to suspension or revocation under this section.
3. Before any person shall be proceeded against on any  complaint  and
  before  any  license  may  be revoked or suspended, such person shall be
  notified, in writing, signed by the  inspector,  to  appear  before  the
  inspector.  Such  notice  shall specify the nature and substance of such
  complaint and shall be served personally at least five days  before  the
  time  fixed  for  appearance. The inspector may postpone or adjourn such
  hearing from time to time.
4. The  inspector,  at  the  request  of  either  the  complaining  or
  defending  party,  shall  issue  subpoenas  to  compel the attendance of
  witnesses before the inspector in all cases which  he  is  empowered  to
  hear  and  determine  under this article. The inspector shall examine on
  oath, to be  administered  by  him,  all  such  witnesses.  Each  person
  subpoenaed  as  a witness shall be entitled to the same witness fees and
  be subject to the same penalties and punishments  for  disobedience,  or
  for  false  testimony, as would apply in a civil suit at law, in a court
  of record.
5. Whenever the license of any master, pilot, engineer or joint  pilot
  and  engineer  is suspended or revoked he shall forthwith deliver up his
  license to the inspector. The inspector shall retain any such  suspended
  license  until  the time of suspension shall expire. Any such person who
  shall refuse to deliver up such suspended or revoked  license  shall  be
  subject  to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each day following such
  refusal.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 2 - Public Vessels › 65 - Fees for Vessel Inspections and for the Issuance of Licenses.

§ 65.  Fees  for  vessel inspections and for the issuance of licenses.
  The owner of a public vessel, inspected and licensed as provided in this
  chapter, shall pay to the inspector, for each vessel not over  ten  tons
  burden,  twenty  dollars;  for  each vessel over ten and not over twenty
  tons burden, thirty dollars; for each vessel over twenty  and  not  over
  fifty  tons  burden,  forty  dollars; for each vessel over fifty and not
  over one hundred tons burden, fifty dollars; and for  each  vessel  over
  one  hundred  tons burden, one hundred dollars. Each person licensed, as
  provided for in this chapter, shall pay twenty dollars for each original
  license and ten dollars for each renewal thereof. All moneys received by
  the office for examinations, licenses or renewals of licenses, shall  be
  deposited into the "I love NY waterways" boating safety fund established
  pursuant to section ninety-seven-nn of the state finance law.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 2 - Public Vessels › 66 - Inflammable or Explosive Articles Prohibited.

§ 66. Inflammable  or  explosive articles prohibited. 1. No loose hay,
  loose cotton, or loose hemp, camphene, nitro-glycerine, naptha, benzine,
  benzol, coal-oil, crude petroleum or other like explosive burning fluids
  or dangerous articles, shall be carried as freight or used as stores  on
  any  public  vessel  carrying  passengers  licensed  under this chapter,
  except that refined petroleum which will not ignite at a temperature  of
  less  than  one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit may be carried on the
  main deck of any public vessel, provided the barrels or cases containing
  such oil are fully covered with a tarpaulin. But nothing in this section
  shall be construed to prevent any vessel utilizing petroleum,  petroleum
  products  or  other  mineral  oils  as  a  source  of motive power, from
  carrying for its own use, in reasonable quantities, petroleum, petroleum
  products and  oils  in  metal  tanks,  properly  protected,  vented  and
  located,  such tanks, their piping, equipment and manner of installation
  to be subject to the approval of the inspector, and such  approval  when
  given  shall be indorsed on the certificate of inspection issued to such
  vessel,  nor  shall  the  provisions  of  this  section   prohibit   the
  transportation  by  vessels of gasoline or other petroleum products when
  carried in the tanks of  motor  vehicles  using  gasoline  or  petroleum
  products  as  a  source  of motive power, provided that all fire in such
  vehicles shall be extinguished and  their  engines  and  motors  stopped
  immediately  after  boarding  such vessels, and no fire shall be lighted
  nor the  engine  or  motor  of  such  vehicle  shall  be  started  until
  immediately before such vehicle shall leave the vessel.
2.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  the operator of any marina providing
  facilities for sale of fuel to vessels, to maintain fuel  pumps  on  the
  premises unless equipped as may be necessary for the arresting of static
  electricity.  All  motors  and  generators  on the vessel being refueled
  shall be turned off during the refueling process.
A violation of the provisions  of  this  section  shall  constitute  a
  violation  punishable  as  set  forth in section seventy-three-c of this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 2 - Public Vessels › 68 - Investigations by Inspector; Penalties; Reports.

§ 68. Investigations  by  inspector; penalties; reports. The inspector
  upon  order  or  pursuant  to  direction  of  the   commissioner   shall
  investigate  all  violations and charges of violations of the provisions
  of this article which are  applicable  to  public  vessels.  Should  the
  investigations  disclose  that  a  person  has  sustained  bodily injury
  through accident caused as the direct result of any such  violation,  he
  shall  file  with  the  district  attorney  of  the county in which such
  violation occurred, a statement of the  nature  of  the  violation,  the
  injury  sustained  and  the  names  of  the  persons involved and of the
  witnesses thereto. Any master, owner, or other person violating  any  of
  such  provisions, in addition to any other punishment prescribed by this
  chapter or other law, shall forfeit to the people of the state a sum  of
  not  less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars to be fixed
  by the court or justice for each  and  every  offense;  every  violation
  shall  be  a separate and distinct offense, and, in case of a continuing
  violation, every day's continuance thereof  shall  be  deemed  to  be  a
  separate and distinct offense.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 2 - Public Vessels › 69 - Seizure of Public Vessels.

§ 69. Seizure  of  public  vessels.  Whenever the inspector shall find
  after investigation or have reasonable cause to believe that any  public
  vessel  is  being  operated  in  contravention of the provisions of this
  article, or is being operated by an unlicensed person by  and  with  the
  consent  of  the  owner,  he may seize and impound such vessel until the
  termination of the action against  the  owner  to  recover  the  penalty
  therefor  and  thereafter  until  the  penalty  imposed  by the court or
  justice has been paid. Such seizure and impoundment of any public vessel
  by the inspector shall be at the owner's risk. Within fifteen days after
  the entry of judgment by the court or justice, the inspector may, unless
  the judgment be sooner paid and in lieu of proceeding by body execution,
  sell the public vessel so impounded at public sale upon  notice  to  the
  owner.  Notice  of  the sale, specifying the date, place and hour of the
  sale shall be served upon the owner of the public vessel  personally  or
  by  registered  mail  addressed  to  him  at  his last known post-office
  address, and published not less than  ten  days  before  the  sale.  The
  publication of notice of sale shall be made in a newspaper or newspapers
  designated  by the commissioner having general circulation in the county
  where the public vessel was seized and impounded.  The proceeds of  sale
  shall  first  be applied in payment of the judgment and expenses of sale
  and the remainder shall be paid to the owner of  the  public  vessel  or
  other person lawfully entitled thereto. If the commissioner is unable to
  determine  by reasonable investigation the person or persons entitled to
  the remainder of the proceeds of sale, he may deposit the same with  the
  supreme  court  in  the  third judicial district for final determination
  thereon.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 2-A - Petroleum-Bearing Vessels › 70 - Minimum Conditions for Petroleum-Bearing Vessels in Certain Areas; Tanker-Avoidance Zones.

§ 70. Minimum  conditions  for  petroleum-bearing  vessels  in certain
areas; tanker-avoidance zones.  1.  The  commissioner  of  environmental
conservation  in consultation with the petroleum-bearing vessel advisory
commission established in  section  seventy-one  of  this  article,  the
United  States  Coast  Guard,  the  board of commissioners of pilots and
appropriate  officials  of  any  state  or   country   with   concurrent
jurisdiction over water bodies which might be affected, through rule and
regulation may establish standards setting forth:
(a)  the  minimum  conditions under which petroleum-bearing vessels as
defined in section one hundred seventy-two of this chapter may enter  or
move upon the navigable waters of the state and any tidewaters bordering
on  or  lying within the boundaries of Nassau and Suffolk counties. Such
conditions may include, but not be limited to, visibility, the tide  and
wind conditions and weather; and
(b)  the  minimum conditions under which petroleum-bearing vessels may
enter or leave any major facility, port or harbor. Such  conditions  may
include, but not be limited to, visibility, the tide and wind conditions
and weather.
2. The commissioner of environmental conservation may, in consultation
with  the  petroleum-bearing  vessel  advisory commission established in
section seventy-one of this article, the United States Coast Guard,  the
board  of commissioners of pilots and appropriate officials of any state
or country with concurrent jurisdiction over water bodies which might be
affected, establish tanker-avoidance zones, where it shall  be  unlawful
for   petroleum-bearing  vessels  as  defined  in  section  one  hundred
seventy-two of this chapter, to enter or move upon the navigable  waters
of  the  state  or  any  tidewaters  bordering  on  or  lying within the
boundaries of Nassau and Suffolk counties.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 2-A - Petroleum-Bearing Vessels › 70-A - Minimum Conditions for Petroleum-Bearing Vessels on the Hudson River; Tanker-Avoidance Zones.

§ 70-a. Minimum conditions for petroleum-bearing vessels on the Hudson
river;  tanker-avoidance  zones.  1.  The  commissioner of environmental
conservation in consultation with the United  States  Coast  Guard,  the
board  of commissioners of pilots, the department of state, at least one
licensed Hudson river pilot and appropriate officials of any state which
might be affected, may establish guidelines setting forth:
(a) the minimum conditions under which  petroleum-bearing  vessels  as
defined  in section one hundred seventy-two of this chapter may enter or
move upon the navigable waters of the Hudson river. Such conditions  may
include,  but  not be limited to: (i) visibility; (ii) the tide and wind
conditions; and (iii) weather;
(b) the minimum conditions under which petroleum-bearing  vessels  may
enter  or  leave  any  major  facility,  port or harbor along the Hudson
river. Such conditions may include, but  are  not  be  limited  to:  (i)
visibility; (ii) the tide and wind conditions; and (iii) weather;
(c)  the  establishment  of  tanker-avoidance zones, where it shall be
unlawful for petroleum-bearing vessels as defined in section one hundred
seventy-two of this chapter, to enter, move or anchor upon the navigable
waters of the Hudson river, except in cases  of  great  emergency.  Such
tanker-avoidance  zones  may  be  based  upon physical and environmental
conditions which may include, but are not limited to:  (i)  navigational
hazards;   (ii)   environmental   conditions;  (iii)  the  existence  of
designated  significant  coastal  fish  and  wildlife   habitats;   (iv)
proximity  to  waterfront  communities;  (v) disproportionate impacts on
communities;  and  (vi)  federally  or  state  identified  environmental
remediation  sites;  and may consider an affected community's waterfront
revitalization plan or comprehensive plan and the environmental  justice
communities impacts.
2.   The   commissioner   of   environmental   conservation  following
consultation  with  the  United  States  Coast  Guard,  the   board   of
commissioners  of  pilots, the department of state, the office of parks,
recreation and historic preservation, at least one licensed Hudson river
pilot and appropriate officials of any state which  might  be  affected,
shall  submit  a  report to the governor, the temporary president of the
senate, and the speaker of the assembly within one hundred  twenty  days
of  the  effective  date  of  this  section regarding recommendations on
plans, policies and programs affecting petroleum-bearing vessels on  the
navigable  waters  of  the  Hudson  river,  as  well  as on any proposed
rulemaking from the United States Coast Guard  which  would  impact  the
Hudson river.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 2-A - Petroleum-Bearing Vessels › 71 - Petroleum-Bearing Vessel Advisory Commission.

§ 71. Petroleum-bearing vessel advisory commission. 1. Creation of the
petroleum-bearing  vessel  advisory  commission.    The  commissioner of
environmental conservation shall establish  a  petroleum-bearing  vessel
advisory  commission  to  make  recommendations  on  plans, policies and
programs affecting petroleum-bearing vessels. Such  advisory  commission
shall  be  composed of nine members to be appointed by the commissioner.
The chairperson shall be designated by the commissioner of environmental
conservation. All members of the commission shall have knowledge of  and
experience in the pilotage of commercial vessels. At least three members
shall  be  licensed  pilots  by  the state of New York, and at least two
members shall be pilots licensed by states contiguous to New York or  by
Canada  and  at least two members shall be experienced in the navigation
and pilotage of tug boats and petroleum-bearing barges. Appointments  to
the  advisory  commission  shall  be made no later than the first day of
January next succeeding the date on which this section will have  become
a law.
2.  Meetings of the advisory commission. The advisory commission shall
meet at least annually.
3. Duties of the advisory commission. The  advisory  commission  shall
have the following powers and duties:
(a)  to  advise  the  commissioner  of  environmental  conservation in
establishing minimum conditions for petroleum-bearing vessels in certain
waters, pursuant to section seventy of this article.
(b) to  advise  the  commissioner  of  environmental  conservation  in
establishing tanker-avoidance zones, pursuant to section seventy of this
article.
4.  Term  of appointment. All members of the advisory commission shall
serve terms of three years.
5. State assistance. The commissioner  of  environmental  conservation
and  all  state  agencies  shall  make  any  and  all  documents readily
available to the advisory commission which are needed  to  properly  and
thoroughly   carry   out   its  responsibilities.  The  commissioner  of
environmental conservation shall also make  available  to  the  advisory
commission  such  staff  assistance  reasonably  necessary  to allow the
advisory commission to carry out its duties and responsibilities.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 3 - Pleasure Vessels › 71-D - Liveries; Safety Regulations; Penalty.

§ 71-d. Liveries;  safety  regulations; penalty. 1. No livery operator
shall knowingly lease, hire or rent a vessel to any person:
(a) When the number of persons  using  the  vessel  shall  exceed  the
number  deemed  to  constitute  a  maximum  safety load for said vessel,
according to its capacity plate or industry-accepted standards.
(b) When the manufacturer's rated horsepower of the motor exceeds  the
capacity of the vessel, making the vessel unsafe to operate.
(c)  When  the  vessel  does not contain the equipment required by its
respective class, as provided by section forty.
1-a. Notwithstanding subdivision one of  section  forty-nine  of  this
article,  a  livery  may  lease,  hire  or rent a mechanically propelled
vessel, except a personal water craft or  specialty  prop  craft,  to  a
person who is not the holder of a boating safety certificate if:
(a) the person is eighteen years or older;
(b) the operator of such livery or his or her designated agent, is the
holder  of a boating safety certificate, and prior to permitting the use
by such person of the vessel explains and demonstrates to such person by
video or actual in water demonstration the operation of such vessel, and
the use and location of such vessel's safety equipment;
(c) such person, after receiving  the  explanation  and  demonstration
required  pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subdivision, demonstrates to
the livery operator  or  the  livery  operator's  designated  agent  the
ability to operate such vessel and use the applicable safety equipment;
(d)  such  person  presents genuine proof of identification and age to
the livery operator;
(e) the livery operator or the livery operator's designated agent,  at
the  time of the leasing, hiring, or renting, records the name, address,
and age of the operator of the leased,  hired  or  rented  vessel.  Such
records shall be maintained for a period of not less than one year; and
(f) the vessel is not leased, hired or rented to the same person for a
period exceeding sixty days.
2. Any person convicted of violating this section shall be guilty of a
violation  punishable  by  a  fine of not less than twenty-five nor more
than one hundred dollars.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 3 - Pleasure Vessels › 72 - Operation of Pleasure Vessels on Round Island Lake, Orange County.

§ 72. Operation  of  pleasure  vessels  on  Round  Island lake, Orange
  county. Pleasure vessels as  defined  in  this  chapter,  equipped  with
  detachable  outboard  motors or permanent inboard motors, except vessels
  propelled by electric motors of not over  one-fourth  rated  horsepower,
  shall  not  be  operated at any time on the waters of Round Island lake,
  Orange county.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 3 - Pleasure Vessels › 72-A - Operation of Vessels on the Inland Waters of Chautauqua County.

§ 72-a. Operation  of  vessels  on  the  inland  waters  of Chautauqua
  county. No water craft shall pass the stern of a  boat  being  used  for
  trolling  less  than two hundred feet from the stern of such boat on the
  inland lakes of Chautauqua county.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 3-A - Penalties › 73-B - Misdemeanors.

§ 73-b. Misdemeanors. Every person convicted of a misdemeanor pursuant
  to  any  of  the provisions of this chapter for which another penalty is
  not provided shall for a first conviction thereof be punished by a  fine
  of not less than two hundred fifty nor more than five hundred dollars or
  by a period of imprisonment of not more than thirty days or by both such
  fine  and  imprisonment; for a conviction of a second violation, both of
  which were committed within a period of twenty-four months, such  person
  shall  be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than
  one thousand five hundred dollars or by a period of imprisonment of  not
  more  than  sixty  days  or  by  both such fine and imprisonment; upon a
  conviction of a  third  or  subsequent  violation,  all  of  which  were
  committed  within  a  period of twenty-four months, such person shall be
  punished by a fine of not less than one thousand five hundred  nor  more
  than two thousand five hundred dollars or by a period of imprisonment of
  not  more  than  one  hundred  twenty  days  or  by  both  such fine and
  imprisonment.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 3-A - Penalties › 73-C - Violations.

§ 73-c. Violations.  1.  Any person who violates any of the provisions
  of this article or any local law, ordinance, order, rule  or  regulation
  adopted  pursuant to this article, shall be guilty of a violation unless
  such conduct is declared to be a misdemeanor or  a  felony  pursuant  to
  this chapter or any other law of this state.
2. Every person convicted of a violation for a violation of any of the
  provisions  of  this  article  or  of  any  ordinance,  order,  rule  or
  regulation adopted pursuant to this article for which another penalty is
  not provided shall for a first conviction thereof be punished by a  fine
  of  not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred fifty dollars or
  by imprisonment for not more than seven days or by both  such  fine  and
  imprisonment; for a conviction of a second violation, both of which were
  committed  within  a  period of twenty-four months, such person shall be
  punished by a fine of not less than two hundred fifty nor more than five
  hundred dollars or by imprisonment of not more than fifteen days  or  by
  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment;  upon  a  conviction for a third or
  subsequent violation, all of which were committed  within  a  period  of
  twenty-four  months, such person shall be punished by a fine of not less
  than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or by  imprisonment
  for not more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 5 - Boating Safety Education › 75 - Educational Program.

§ 75. Educational  program. In order to protect the public interest in
  the prudent and equitable use of the waters of the state and enhance the
  enjoyment of pleasure boating and other sports thereon, the commissioner
  shall initiate and put into effect a comprehensive  educational  program
  designed  to  advance boating safety, which provides for the training of
  all boat operators in the safe operation of vessels  including  personal
  watercraft and specialty prop-craft.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 5 - Boating Safety Education › 78 - Boating Safety Certificate.

§  78.  Boating  safety  certificate.  1. "Boating safety certificate"
  shall mean a certificate issued by the commissioner evidencing that  the
  holder  thereof  has  successfully  completed a course of instruction in
  boating safety as provided in this section. The commissioner  shall  put
  into  effect  a  plan  for  the  training  of all boat operators and the
  issuance of such boating safety certificates. For the purposes  of  this
  section, the term "boating safety" shall include instruction in the safe
  operation of personal watercraft and specialty prop-craft.
2.  "Boating  safety certificate" shall also mean a certificate issued
  by the commissioner evidencing that the holder thereof has  successfully
  completed  a  course  of  instruction  in  the safe operation of vessels
  including   personal   watercraft   and   speciality   prop-craft.   The
  commissioner  is  authorized  to collect a fee not to exceed ten dollars
  for the issuance of such certificate which fee shall be deposited in the
  "I love  NY  waterways"  boating  safety  fund  established  by  section
  ninety-seven-nn  of  the  state  finance  law, as added by chapter eight
  hundred five of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-two,  and  shall  be
  solely  available  to  support the administration of personal watercraft
  and specialty prop-craft safety training and enforcement.
3. The commissioner is authorized and directed to establish  a  system
  for  tracking  and  replacing  boating safety certificates issued by the
  commissioner. The commissioner is further authorized to require that any
  other  entity  approved  by  the  commissioner  to  provide  courses  of
  instruction and award boating safety certificates establish a system for
  tracking  and  replacing boating safety certificates so as to enable the
  replacement of lost or stolen certificates to those who have  previously
  been awarded such certificates.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 5 - Boating Safety Education › 78-A - Insurance Rate Reduction.

§ 78-a. Insurance  rate  reduction.  Any insurance carrier licensed to
  issue yacht or boating liability insurance in this state  is  authorized
  to  grant  rate  reductions  with  the  approval  of  the  department of
  financial services to any owner of a yacht or boat who has  successfully
  completed  a  boating safety course or an advanced boating safety course
  or holds a valid United States Coast Guard operators license.
2023 New York Laws › NAV - Navigation › Article 4 - Vessels › Part 5 - Boating Safety Education › 79 - Courses of Instruction.

§ 79.  Courses  of  instruction.  1.  For  the  purpose of giving such
  courses of instruction and awarding  boating  safety  certificates,  the
  commissioner   may  designate  as  his  or  her  agent  any  person  the
  commissioner deems qualified to act in such capacity, including, but not
  limited to, certified instructors  of  the  United  States  coast  guard
  auxiliary,  United  States  power  squadrons,  the United States sailing
  association for a powerboating course or courses which are  approved  by
  the  commissioner,  American  power  boat  association,  boy  scouts  of
  America, Red Cross and other organizations. No charge  whatsoever  shall
  be  made  to any person less than eighteen years of age for the issuance
  of a boating safety certificate. Persons less than eighteen years of age
  may be charged a fee for instruction in boating safety, except that  the
  office  may  not charge a fee when providing such instruction to persons
  less than eighteen years of age.
2. The commissioner is  authorized,  at  his  or  her  discretion,  to
  develop  a method for approving internet-based boating safety courses as
  an  appropriate  and  effective  method  for  the   administration   and
  completion  of  training  in  the  safe  operation of vessels, including
  personal watercraft  and  specialty  prop-craft,  for  the  purposes  of
  awarding  a  boating  safety  certificate  pursuant to this section. All
  approved internet-based boating safety courses shall employ  methods  to
  ensure attendance of the student throughout the course.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.