N.Y. Navigation Law § 47-b: Report to the commissioner required upon accident

§ 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,

including himself or herself, in excess of one 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

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.