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 Oct. 26, 2024).

40
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
Application

Accessed:
Oct. 26, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 47-A’s source at nysenate​.gov

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