N.Y. Navigation Law § 58: Number of passengers

§ 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 as set forth in section

seventy-three-b of this article.