N.Y. Navigation Law § 66: Inflammable or explosive articles prohibited

§ 66. Inflammable or explosive articles prohibited. 1. No loose hay,

loose cotton, or loose hemp, camphene, nitro-glycerine, naptha, benzine,

benzol, coal-oil, crude petroleum or other like explosive burning fluids

or dangerous articles, shall be carried as freight or used as stores on

any public vessel carrying passengers licensed under this chapter,

except that refined petroleum which will not ignite at a temperature of

less than one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit may be carried on the

main deck of any public vessel, provided the barrels or cases containing

such oil are fully covered with a tarpaulin. But nothing in this section

shall be construed to prevent any vessel utilizing petroleum, petroleum

products or other mineral oils as a source of motive power, from

carrying for its own use, in reasonable quantities, petroleum, petroleum

products and oils in metal tanks, properly protected, vented and

located, such tanks, their piping, equipment and manner of installation

to be subject to the approval of the inspector, and such approval when

given shall be indorsed on the certificate of inspection issued to such

vessel, nor shall the provisions of this section prohibit the

transportation by vessels of gasoline or other petroleum products when

carried in the tanks of motor vehicles using gasoline or petroleum

products as a source of motive power, provided that all fire in such

vehicles shall be extinguished and their engines and motors stopped

immediately after boarding such vessels, and no fire shall be lighted

nor the engine or motor of such vehicle shall be started until

immediately before such vehicle shall leave the vessel.

2. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any marina providing

facilities for sale of fuel to vessels, to maintain fuel pumps on the

premises unless equipped as may be necessary for the arresting of static

electricity. All motors and generators on the vessel being refueled

shall be turned off during the refueling process.

A violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a

violation punishable as set forth in section seventy-three-c of this

article.