Title NAV, Navigation

§ 79-c. Rules. The commissioner may adopt and amend when he deems necessary all rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this article.

§ 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…

§ 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 municipa…

§ 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 tran…

§ 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 supr…

§ 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 servic…

§ 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 e…

§ 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 t…

§ 87. Board of commissioners of pilots; powers and duties. 1. There shall continue to be in the city of New York, a board entitled the "board of commissioners of pilots," consisting of six persons, who shall hold their offices respectively, for two years from the time of their e…

§ 88. Pilotage at Sandy Hook, Sands Point or Execution Rocks; rates. 1. Every foreign vessel and every American vessel under register entering or departing from the Port of New York by the way of Sandy Hook or by the way of Sands Point or Execution Rocks, shall take a Sandy Hook…

§ 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 …

§ 89-a. Pilotage on the Hudson river; rates. 1. Every foreign vessel and every American vessel under register, except vessels proceeding otherwise than by sea and of less than three hundred gross registered tons and having a fully loaded draft of seven feet or less, entering or …

§ 89-b. Pilotage on Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound; rates. 1. Every foreign vessel and every American vessel under register transiting the New York state waters of Long Island Sound or Block Island Sound east of Execution Rocks or Sands Point, and any such vessels ente…

§ 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…

§ 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 o…

§ 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 …

§ 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 regar…

§ 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 sha…

§ 94. Suspension or revocation of licenses; suspension of pilots. 1.\nIf any pilot licensed under this article shall become intoxicated while\nin charge of any ship or vessel as pilot, he shall forfeit his pilotage,\nand be suspended from duty for six months, for the first offen…

§ 95. Regulation of pilots and persons employing them. 1. The board of commissioners may alter or amend any existing regulation for pilots, and make, duly promulgate and enforce new rules or regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this state or of the United States, which…

§ 97. Miscellaneous provisions. 1. All actions and proceedings by the board of commissioners to enforce any liability or to recover any fines, penalties or forfeitures given by law to such officers, or to the board of commissioners, may be brought and prosecuted by such officers…

§ 98. Application of article. The provisions of this article shall not apply to vessels navigating under a coastwise license and employed in the coasting trade. If, however, any such vessel shall employ a pilot licensed under the provisions of this article, such pilot shall be e…