N.Y. Executive Law § 534-h: Prohibition of public loading

§ 534-h. Prohibition of public loading. 1. It is unlawful for any

person to load or unload waterborne freight onto or from vehicles other

than railroad cars at piers or at other waterfront terminals within the

port of New York district in this state, for a fee or other

compensation, other than the following persons and their employees:

(a) Carriers of freight by water, but only at piers at which their

vessels are berthed;

(b) Other carriers of freight (including but not limited to railroads

and truckers), but only in connection with freight transported or to be

transported by such carriers;

(c) Operators of piers or other waterfront terminals (including

railroads, truck terminal operators, warehouse workers and other

persons), but only at piers or other waterfront terminals operated by

them;

(d) Shippers or consignees of freight, but only in connection with

freight shipped by such shipper or consigned to such consignee;

(e) Stevedores licensed under section five hundred thirty-four-g of

this article, whether or not such waterborne freight has been or is to

be transported by a carrier of freight by water with which such

stevedore shall have a contract of the type prescribed by paragraph (d)

of subdivision three of section five hundred thirty-four-g of this

article.

2. Nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to permit any

such loading or unloading of any waterborne freight at any place by any

such person by means of any independent contractor, or any other agent

other than an employee, unless such independent contractor is a person

permitted by this section to load or unload such freight at such place

in the person's own right.