§ 50. Owners to notify inspector and apply for inspection. It shall be the duty of the owner of a public vessel which he intends to operate on the navigable waters of the state to notify the inspector of such intention at least one month before it is desired to place the vessel in operation […]
§ 53. Rules and regulations. The commissioner may adopt, amend and repeal rules and regulations as he or she deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this part.
§ 54. Construction against fire. All public vessels shall be so constructed that inflammable material about any machinery or apparatus involving danger of fire where such inflammable material is exposed to ignition, shall be shielded by some incombustible material so that the air may circulate freely between such material and the ignitable substances. Before granting […]
§ 55. Stairways and passageways. 1. Every public vessel certified to carry passengers shall be provided with (a) permanent stairways and other sufficient and safe means convenient for passing from one deck to the other, and (b) passageways large enough to allow persons freely to pass, which shall be open fore and aft of the […]
§ 56. Fire pump. Every public vessel permitted by her certificate to carry one hundred passengers or more, shall be provided with a fire pump or other equivalent apparatus for throwing water, the same to be at all times during the navigation of such vessel, kept ready for immediate use, having hose of suitable size […]
§ 57. Identification number of vessel. Every public vessel subject to the provisions of this chapter shall be registered and display the identification number assigned as set forth in section twenty-two hundred fifty-one of the vehicle and traffic law. In addition to the number assigned, each public vessel shall display the letters “PV” not more […]
§ 58. Number of passengers. It shall not be lawful to take on board of any public vessel a greater number of passengers than the number allowed in the certificate of inspection and for every violation of this provision, the master, pilot, joint pilot and engineer or owner shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable […]
§ 58-a. Unauthorized boarding of vessels. (1) It shall be unlawful for any person except a pilot or public officer to board or attempt to board, a vessel arriving in the port of New York before such vessel shall have been made fast to the wharf, without first obtaining leave from the master or person […]
§ 59. Manning of public vessels. 1. All public vessels while under way under their own power, shall be in charge of a licensed master, pilot, engineer, or joint pilot and engineer. Anyone operating a public vessel without a license and any owner who permits the operation of a public vessel by a person who […]
§ 60. Inability to provide licensed officer. If the owner or master of a public vessel is unable to obtain the services of a licensed officer, the inspector shall be notified and the deficiency may be temporarily supplied, if the inspector approves, until the services of a licensed officer can be obtained.
§ 61. Repairs and modifications. 1. Before any repair or modification is made to the structure or engineering plant of a public vessel, or any repair or modification is made that may affect the stability, seaworthiness or safe operation of a public vessel, or in the event that the owner of a public vessel becomes […]
§ 62. Loss of life by misconduct of officers. Every master or other person employed on any public vessel, by whose misconduct, negligence or inattention to his or her duties on such vessel, the life of any person is lost, and every owner or charterer through whose fraud, neglect, misconduct or violation of law, the […]
§ 63. Certificate of inspection. The inspector, if satisfied that a public vessel is in all respects safe and conforms to the requirement of this chapter, shall make and subscribe duplicate certificates setting forth the name and number of the vessel, its age, the date of inspection, the name of the owner, the number of […]
§ 64. Licenses. Every person employed as a master, pilot, engineer or joint pilot and engineer, on board of a public vessel, shall be examined by the inspector as to his qualifications, and if the inspector is satisfied therewith, he shall grant him a license for the term of one year. In a proper case, […]
§ 64-a. Suspension and revocation of licenses. 1. The inspector may suspend or revoke any license of master, pilot, engineer or joint pilot and engineer, issued pursuant to the provisions of this article, upon satisfactory proof of recklessness, carelessness, intemperance, incompetence, wilful dereliction of duty or wilful disobedience of any rule or regulation duly made […]
§ 65. Fees for vessel inspections and for the issuance of licenses. The owner of a public vessel, inspected and licensed as provided in this chapter, shall pay to the inspector, for each vessel not over ten tons burden, twenty dollars; for each vessel over ten and not over twenty tons burden, thirty dollars; for […]
§ 66. Inflammable or explosive articles prohibited. 1. No loose hay, loose cotton, or loose hemp, camphene, nitro-glycerine, naptha, benzine, benzol, coal-oil, crude petroleum or other like explosive burning fluids or dangerous articles, shall be carried as freight or used as stores on any public vessel carrying passengers licensed under this chapter, except that refined […]
§ 67. Public vessel equipment. 1. Buoyant apparatus. Every public vessel of over fifty tons burden, navigating more than one mile from shore, shall carry in addition to other equipment required by this section, sufficient buoyant apparatus for not less than twenty per cent of all persons on board. Buoyant apparatus shall mean and include […]
§ 68. Investigations by inspector; penalties; reports. The inspector upon order or pursuant to direction of the commissioner shall investigate all violations and charges of violations of the provisions of this article which are applicable to public vessels. Should the investigations disclose that a person has sustained bodily injury through accident caused as the direct […]
§ 69. Seizure of public vessels. Whenever the inspector shall find after investigation or have reasonable cause to believe that any public vessel is being operated in contravention of the provisions of this article, or is being operated by an unlicensed person by and with the consent of the owner, he may seize and impound […]
