N.Y. Navigation Law § 82: Commissioner of transportation to inspect and report

§ 82. Commissioner of transportation to inspect and report. In case of

any controversy arising between such town or village officer and the

said municipal corporation diverting such fresh water as to the depth or

width of said tidewater creek or estuary, the commissioner of

transportation shall, within ten days after notice to him cause said

tidewater creek or estuary to be inspected and a report as to its

condition to be filed in the office of the department of transportation,

and the depth at low-water mark as certified to by him shall be deemed

correct, and the expense of such inspection shall be paid by said

municipal corporation, which corporation shall have fifteen days from

and after the filing of such report in which to put such tidewater creek

or estuary into the proper navigable condition herein provided for.