Title NAV, Navigation

§ 46-b. Special provisions relating to speed on Saratoga lake. 1. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter or any inconsistent local laws, every pleasure vessel operated on Saratoga lake, located in the towns of Malta, Saratoga and Stillwater, and the city of Saratog…

§ 47. Leaving the scene of an accident without reporting. 1. (a) Whenever any vessel, including, but not limited to, rowboats, canoes and kayaks, meets with an accident involving damage to any vessel or to the real property or to the personal property, not including animals, of …

§ 47-a. Accidents; police authorities, bay constables and coroners to report. 1. Every police officer, bay constable or judicial officer receiving information of an accident involving a vessel, including, but not limited to, rowboats and canoes, in which any person is killed, in…

§ 47-b. Report to the commissioner required upon accident. Every person operating a vessel, including, but not limited to, rowboats and canoes, upon the navigable waters of the state, or on any other waters within the boundaries of the state, which is in any manner involved in a…

§ 48. Negligence in use or operation of vessel attributable to owner. 1. Every owner of a vessel used or operated upon the navigable waters of the state or any tidewaters bordering on or lying within the boundaries of Nassau and Suffolk counties, shall be liable and responsible …

§ 49. Operator. 1. No person shall operate a mechanically propelled vessel on the navigable waters of the state or any tidewaters bordering on or lying within the boundaries of Nassau and Suffolk counties, unless the operator is at least ten years old and is the holder of a boat…

§ 49-a. Operation of a vessel while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. 1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (a) The term "vessel" shall be every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance propelled in whole…

§ 49-b. Operating a vessel after having consumed alcohol; under the age of twenty-one; per se. 1. Prohibition. No person under the age of twenty-one shall operate a vessel upon the waters of this state after having consumed alcohol as defined in this section. For purposes of thi…

§ 49-c. Termination of unsafe operation. A police officer or peace officer, acting pursuant to his or her special duties, who has reasonable cause to believe that a vessel, including a rowboat, canoe or kayak, is being operated, in his or her presence, upon the navigable waters …

§ 49-d. Application. Sections forty-seven, forty-seven-b, forty-eight, forty-nine-a and forty-nine-b of this chapter shall apply to any vessel operated on privately or publicly owned underground non-navigable waterways with no navigable inlet or outlet that carry passengers for …

§ 50. Owners to notify inspector and apply for inspection. It shall be the duty of the owner of a public vessel which he intends to operate on the navigable waters of the state to notify the inspector of such intention at least one month before it is desired to place the vessel …

§ 53. Rules and regulations. The commissioner may adopt, amend and repeal rules and regulations as he or she deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this part.

§ 54. Construction against fire. All public vessels shall be so constructed that inflammable material about any machinery or apparatus involving danger of fire where such inflammable material is exposed to ignition, shall be shielded by some incombustible material so that the ai…

§ 55. Stairways and passageways. 1. Every public vessel certified to carry passengers shall be provided with (a) permanent stairways and other sufficient and safe means convenient for passing from one deck to the other, and (b) passageways large enough to allow persons freely to…

§ 56. Fire pump. Every public vessel permitted by her certificate to carry one hundred passengers or more, shall be provided with a fire pump or other equivalent apparatus for throwing water, the same to be at all times during the navigation of such vessel, kept ready for immedi…

§ 57. Identification number of vessel. Every public vessel subject to the provisions of this chapter shall be registered and display the identification number assigned as set forth in section twenty-two hundred fifty-one of the vehicle and traffic law. In addition to the number …

§ 58. Number of passengers. It shall not be lawful to take on board of any public vessel a greater number of passengers than the number allowed in the certificate of inspection and for every violation of this provision, the master, pilot, joint pilot and engineer or owner shall …

§ 58-a. Unauthorized boarding of vessels. (1) It shall be unlawful for any person except a pilot or public officer to board or attempt to board, a vessel arriving in the port of New York before such vessel shall have been made fast to the wharf, without first obtaining leave fro…

§ 59. Manning of public vessels. 1. All public vessels while under way under their own power, shall be in charge of a licensed master, pilot, engineer, or joint pilot and engineer. Anyone operating a public vessel without a license and any owner who permits the operation of a pu…

§ 60. Inability to provide licensed officer. If the owner or master of a public vessel is unable to obtain the services of a licensed officer, the inspector shall be notified and the deficiency may be temporarily supplied, if the inspector approves, until the services of a licen…

§ 61. Repairs and modifications. 1. Before any repair or modification is made to the structure or engineering plant of a public vessel, or any repair or modification is made that may affect the stability, seaworthiness or safe operation of a public vessel, or in the event that t…

§ 62. Loss of life by misconduct of officers. Every master or other person employed on any public vessel, by whose misconduct, negligence or inattention to his or her duties on such vessel, the life of any person is lost, and every owner or charterer through whose fraud, neglect…

§ 63. Certificate of inspection. The inspector, if satisfied that a public vessel is in all respects safe and conforms to the requirement of this chapter, shall make and subscribe duplicate certificates setting forth the name and number of the vessel, its age, the date of inspec…

§ 63-a. Suspension of certificate of inspection; penalty for operating a vessel without a certificate of inspection or during suspension. The inspector may suspend a certificate of inspection issued pursuant to the provisions of this article upon satisfactory proof that operatio…

§ 64. Licenses. Every person employed as a master, pilot, engineer or joint pilot and engineer, on board of a public vessel, shall be examined by the inspector as to his qualifications, and if the inspector is satisfied therewith, he shall grant him a license for the term of one…

§ 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, incom…

§ 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 twent…

§ 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 st…

§ 67. Public vessel equipment. 1. Buoyant apparatus. Every public vessel of over fifty tons burden, navigating more than one mile from shore, shall carry in addition to other equipment required by this section, sufficient buoyant apparatus for not less than twenty per cent of al…

§ 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 investigat…

§ 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 co…

§ 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…

§ 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…

§ 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 progr…

§ 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 c…

§ 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 …

§ 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.

§ 73. Towing of persons. 1. No person shall operate a vessel for towing a person unless there is upon such vessel a person, other than the operator, of at least ten years of age, in a position to observe the progress of the person being towed. 2. No person shall be towed or use …

§ 73-a. Regulations of personal watercraft and specialty prop-craft. 1. Personal watercraft and specialty prop-craft. a. No person shall operate a personal watercraft or a specialty prop-craft unless each person riding on such vessel is wearing a securely fastened United States …

§ 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 doll…

§ 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 t…

§ 74. Service of summons and complaint on non-residents. 1. The use, operation, navigation or maintenance by a non-resident, or in his business, of a vessel in waters of this state; or owned by a non-resident and used, operated, navigated or maintained with his permission in wat…

§ 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 …

§ 76. Information. Such program shall include the preparation and dissemination of water safety information to the public, and particularly to the owners and operators of pleasure boats.

§ 77. Rules and regulations. The commissioner may make rules and regulations designed to result in the further knowledge and observance of the principles of safe boat operation.

§ 78. Boating safety certificate. 1. "Boating safety certificate"\nshall mean a certificate issued by the commissioner evidencing that the\nholder thereof has successfully completed a course of instruction in\nboating safety as provided in this section. The commissioner shall pu…

§ 78-a. Insurance rate reduction. Any insurance carrier licensed to\nissue yacht or boating liability insurance in this state is authorized\nto grant rate reductions with the approval of the department of\nfinancial services to any owner of a yacht or boat who has successfully\n…

§ 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,…

§ 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 …

§ 79-b. Vessel and equipment anti-theft program; eligibility for state aid. 1. The commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation shall establish a vessel and related equipment anti-theft program, which shall be applicable on all waterways or bodies of water located…