N.Y. Public Lands Law Section 15-A
Filling in the state owned bed of Lake George prohibited

1.

No person or corporation shall fill in or cause to be filled in any land of the state of New York lying below the mean low water line of Lake George by dumping or placing rock, stone, concrete, dirt or other similar material on said land without first obtaining a grant or lease of the land to be filled in or an easement, license or permit to fill in such land from the commissioner of general services.

2.

This section shall not apply to a person or corporation placing wooden or precast concrete timbers, logs or beams or cribs of wooden or precast concrete timbers, logs or beams filled with rocks or stones on the bed of Lake George for the sole purpose of constructing, reconstructing or repairing the foundation, cribs or supports of a private dock or a private one-story boat house legally erected or maintained on the bed of said lake.

3.

Any person or corporation violating the provisions of this section on or after September first, nineteen hundred sixty-three shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars and by an additional fine of not more than twenty-five dollars for each day that such fill is left on land of the state lying below the mean low water line of Lake George after a written notice to remove the same has been personally served on the person who or corporation which made said fill or caused said fill to be made by the commissioner of general services or pursuant to his direction.

4.

For the purposes of this section mean low water line of Lake George shall mean the water level of Lake George at one and eighty-one hundredths feet on the gage of the United States Geological Survey at Rogers Rock on Lake George known as Rogers Rock gage.

Source: Section 15-A — Filling in the state owned bed of Lake George prohibited, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PBL/15-A (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Apr. 13, 2024).

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State-owned real property inventory and management program 2–A
Certain transfers of jurisdiction over state-owned lands and declarations of abandonment by the commissioner of general services 2–B
Transfers of certain funds 3
Powers and duties 4
Vesting of crown lands in the people of the state 5
Letters patent, form and contents 6
Determination of claims based on alleged failure of title 7
Partition of lands held by the state in joint tenancy or tenancy in common 8
Trespasses upon state lands 9
Penalty for trespasses 10
Power to investigate before grant 11
Power to confirm defective grant 12
Certain patents and grants ratified 12–A
Certain patents ratified and confirmed 13
Grants to heirs, devisees or successors in interest 14
Time of performing conditions of grant 15
Prohibitions as to grants in Lake George 15–A
Filling in the state owned bed of Lake George prohibited 16
Reservation of Esopus island 17
Payment of incumbrances on public lands 17–A
Abandonment of claims under defective tax sales 18
Expenses chargeable to special funds 19
Taxes and assessments for local improvements on state lands 19–A
State aid 19–B
State aid 20
Grants of lands in Onondaga salt springs reservation designated on certain map 21
Conveyance of strips of abandoned canal lands and Onondaga salt springs reservation land 22
Management of sand and gravel resources 23
Disposition of moneys received from sale of certain state lands and sand and gravel thereon 24
Sale or exchange of certain detached parcels of forest preserve lands 25
Sale or exchange of real property owned by the state and devoted to the use of the organized militia 26
Refunds when sales cannot be completed 27
Acquisition of real property by purchase or appropriation 28
Transfer of state lands or watershed conservation easements to the city of New York for water supply protection purposes 29
Watershed conservation easements and watershed agricultural easements
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Accessed:
Apr. 13, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 15-A’s source at nysenate​.gov

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