Legislation
SECTION 15-A
Filling in the state owned bed of Lake George prohibited
Public Lands (PBL) CHAPTER 46, ARTICLE 2
§ 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.
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.