N.Y. General Business Law § 247: Examination of wrecked aircraft before destruction or removal

§ 247. Examination of wrecked aircraft before destruction or removal.

When an aircraft falls or lands in a wrecked condition or is wrecked by

the fall or in landing and an occupant thereof is killed or severely

injured thereby or escapes death or injury by the use of a parachute,

neither such aircraft nor any part of it shall be destroyed or removed

before the expiration of twenty-four hours thereafter without the

permission of an inspector of the federal aviation agency or an

investigator of the civil aeronautics board or a member of the state

police or of a sheriff or regular deputy sheriff; and if, before it is

destroyed or removed, such an inspector or member of the state police or

sheriff or deputy sheriff shall appear at the scene of the wreck for the

purpose of examining the aircraft it shall not be destroyed or removed

until the examination is completed provided the examination be completed

within forty-eight hours of the time that the aircraft fell or landed.

This section shall not prevent or postpone the destruction or removal of

a wrecked aircraft lying in a public street or highway in a position

that causes a blockade of traffic, or lying in a navigable waterway in a

position that impedes or imperils navigation, or which lands or falls on

a building or structure, or in a case where the immediate destruction or

removal of the aircraft is necessary to prevent injury to persons; but

such necessity in the case last mentioned, shall be a matter of defense

in any prosecution for a violation of this section. A person who

destroys or removes, or causes to be destroyed or removed, a wrecked

aircraft in violation of the provisions of this section is guilty of a

misdemeanor.