N.Y. Navigation Law Section 43-A
Use of digital billboards

1.

All vessels shall be prohibited from operating, anchoring or mooring in the navigable waters of the state while operating a digital billboard or other type of billboard that uses flashing, intermittent or moving lights.

2.

As used in this section, the term “digital billboard” shall mean a one or multi-sided outdoor advertising sign that displays digital images using light-emitting diode technology or any such similar technology, unless exclusively used to identify the vessel.

3.

This section shall not be construed to limit any authority delegated to a city, village or town pursuant to § 46-A (Regulations of vessels)section forty-six-a of this part. A city, village or town may, by local law, expressly restrict or prohibit the use of outdoor advertising signage on vessels within one thousand five hundred feet of its shore or expressly authorize vessels to operate a digital billboard or other type of billboard that uses flashing, intermittent or moving lights within one thousand five hundred feet of its shore.

4.

A violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of one thousand dollars for the first violation, and five thousand dollars for all subsequent violations.

Source: Section 43-A — Use of digital billboards, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/NAV/43-A (updated Aug. 23, 2019; accessed Apr. 27, 2024).

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Equipment 40‑A
Manufacture and sale of outboard motors 40‑B
Sale and use of tributyltin paint 41
Pilot rules 42
Searchlights 42‑A
Tow-chains 43
Lights to be displayed 43‑A
Use of digital billboards 44
Noise levels on pleasure vessels 45
Reckless operation of a vessel 45‑A
Beaching a disabled water craft 45‑AA
Special provisions relating to reckless operation and speed on Canandaigua lake 45‑AAA
Special provisions relating to speed on Irondequoit bay 45‑AAAA
Special provisions relating to reckless operation and speed on Greenwood Lake 45‑AAAA*2
Special provisions relating to speed on Sodus Bay 45‑AAAAA
Special provisions relating to reckless operation and speed on Lake Alice 45‑AAAAAA
Special provisions relating to noise and speed on Lamoka Lake and Waneta Lake 45‑AAAAAA*2
Special provisions relating to reckless operation, noise and speed on the Fulton Chain of Lakes 45‑B
Regulation of beaches 45‑C
Special provisions relating to reckless operation and speed on Conesus lake 45‑CC
Reckless operation and speed on the canal system 45‑D
Special provisions relating to speed at Crooke’s Point in Great Kills Harbor 46
Vessel regulation zone 46‑A
Regulations of vessels 46‑AA
Special provisions relating to speed on lakes in Chautauqua county 46‑AAA
Special provisions relating to reckless operation and speed on certain lakes in Hamilton county 46‑AAAA
Special provisions relating to speed on Cuba lake 46‑B
Special provisions relating to speed on Saratoga lake 47
Leaving the scene of an accident without reporting 47‑A
Accidents 47‑B
Report to the commissioner required upon accident 48
Negligence in use or operation of vessel attributable to owner 49
Operator 49‑A
Operation of a vessel while under the influence of alcohol or drugs 49‑B
Operating a vessel after having consumed alcohol 49‑C
Termination of unsafe operation
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Accessed:
Apr. 27, 2024

Last modified:
Aug. 23, 2019

§ 43-A’s source at nysenate​.gov

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