N.Y. Navigation Law Section 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, injured or disappears under the water shall immediately investigate the facts, or cause the same to be investigated, make a written memorandum of the information received, and such additional facts relating to the accident as may come to his or her knowledge, and mail the same within five days to the commissioner and keep a record thereof in his or her office, provided, however, that the report of the accident is made to the police officer, bay constable or judicial officer within five days after such accident. Every coroner, or other official performing like functions, shall likewise make a report to the commissioner with respect to all deaths found to have been the result of vessel accidents.

2.

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 damage in excess of one thousand dollars to the property of any person is sustained shall make a written memorandum of the information received, and such additional facts relating to the accident as may come to his or her knowledge, and mail the same within five days to the commissioner and keep a record thereof in his or her office.

3.

In accordance with any request duly made by an authorized official or agency of the United States, any information compiled by or otherwise available to the commissioner pursuant to this section shall be transmitted to such official or agency of the United States.

Source: Section 47-A — Accidents; police authorities, bay constables and coroners to report, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/NAV/47-A (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jan. 18, 2025).

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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 49‑D
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Accessed:
Jan. 18, 2025

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 47-A’s source at nysenate​.gov

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