§ 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.