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                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              March 9, 2009
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Introduced  by  Sen.  THOMPSON  --  (at  request of the Office of Parks,
  Recreation and Historic Preservation) -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Cultural
  Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation

AN  ACT  to  amend the navigation law, in relation to reporting policies
  and procedures regarding vessels involved in an accident

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of section 47-a of the navigation law, as
added by chapter 587 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  2. Every police officer, bay constable or judicial  officer  receiving
information of an accident involving a vessel, including, but not limit-
ed  to,  rowboats and canoes, in which damage in excess of [one thousand
dollars] TWO 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.
  S  2.  Section  47-b of the navigation law, as added by chapter 587 of
the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  S 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, includ-
ing himself or herself, in excess of [one thousand dollars] TWO 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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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] PART.
  S  3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law.