N.Y. Public Lands Law § 15-a: Filling in the state owned bed of Lake George prohibited

§ 15-a. Filling in the state owned bed of Lake George prohibited. 1.

No person or corporation shall fill in or cause to be filled in any land

of the state of New York lying below the mean low water line of Lake

George by dumping or placing rock, stone, concrete, dirt or other

similar material on said land without first obtaining a grant or lease

of the land to be filled in or an easement, license or permit to fill in

such land from the commissioner of general services.

2. This section shall not apply to a person or corporation placing

wooden or precast concrete timbers, logs or beams or cribs of wooden or

precast concrete timbers, logs or beams filled with rocks or stones on

the bed of Lake George for the sole purpose of constructing,

reconstructing or repairing the foundation, cribs or supports of a

private dock or a private one-story boat house legally erected or

maintained on the bed of said lake.

3. Any person or corporation violating the provisions of this section

on or after September first, nineteen hundred sixty-three shall be

guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than five

hundred dollars and by an additional fine of not more than twenty-five

dollars for each day that such fill is left on land of the state lying

below the mean low water line of Lake George after a written notice to

remove the same has been personally served on the person who or

corporation which made said fill or caused said fill to be made by the

commissioner of general services or pursuant to his direction.

4. For the purposes of this section mean low water line of Lake George

shall mean the water level of Lake George at one and eighty-one

hundredths feet on the gage of the United States Geological Survey at

Rogers Rock on Lake George known as Rogers Rock gage.