N.Y. General Business Law § 264: Mohawk basin, at Green Island

§ 264. Mohawk basin, at Green Island. Whenever the owner or lessee of

lands contiguous to lands of the state bordering on the Mohawk basin at

Green Island, and lying between the lands of such owner or lessee and

such basin, shall require the ice formed in such river between the

center thereof and such lands of the state for the purpose of filling

any icehouse now erected, or which may at the time of the formation of

such ice hereafter be erected, on such lands contiguous to such state

lands, such owner or lessee of such lands and icehouses shall have the

exclusive privilege, and without obtaining any permit under any

provision of the canal law, of cutting and harvesting all the ice so

formed in such basin in said river in front of and adjacent to such

lands of the state between the same and the center of the basin, and

opposite such privately owned or leased lands; provided that the nearest

boundary of said land is not more than fifty (50) feet removed from the

shore line of the basin, and provided such owner or lessee shall have

indicated his intention of exercising such privilege by staking out so

much of said ice as shall be required for said purpose, which staking

out shall not be required before the ice has a thickness of four inches,

and provided, also, such owner or lessee shall surround any cuttings and

openings with fences of bushes or other safeguards as a warning to all

persons. It shall not be lawful for any person other than the owner or

lessee of such lands and icehouses to take possession of or cut the ice

so staked out within the area covered by the privilege above granted,

and the same is prohibited after such owner or lessee shall have

complied with the foregoing requirements. The provisions of section two

hundred and sixty-one, relative to ice in the Hudson river, shall apply

to ice within the area staked out in the Mohawk basin by an owner or

lessee in compliance with the provisions of this section. This section

shall not apply to that portion of the land where the nearest boundary

recedes more than fifty (50) feet from the shore line of the basin.