N.Y. Navigation Law Section 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 an accident, in which any person is killed, injured or disappears under the water, or in which damage to the property of any one person, including himself or herself, in excess of one thousand dollars is sustained shall, within five days after such accident, report the matter in writing to the commissioner. If the owner is not involved in such accident or is incapacitated, the owner shall, within five days after learning of the facts of such accident, report the matter to the commissioner together with such information as may have come to the owner’s knowledge relating to such accident. Every such operator of a vessel, or surviving participant in any such accident, or the owner of the vessel involved in any such accident, shall make such other and additional reports as the commissioner may require. A violation of this section shall constitute a violation punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars. Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to supersede the provisions of section forty-seven of this article.

Source: Section 47-B — Report to the commissioner required upon accident, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/NAV/47-B (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-B’s source at nysenate​.gov

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