§ 2-01 Definitions.
RCNY § 2-01
The following definitions are applicable to this chapter: Barge. "Barge" means any vessel or other craft without propulsion power and designed chiefly for present use to transport cargo of any sort. A barge may or may not have a superstructure. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Business Services. Converted craft. "Converted craft" means any barge, vessel, houseboat or other craft, that is used or is designed for use as a theater, repair shop, for recreation, a residence, restaurant, studio, museum, training school, club, storage area or commercial business, or for any non-maritime activity. Debris. "Debris" means any substance or material, whether on land or water, which is liable to become drift. Discharge. "Discharge" means any spilling, leaking, dumping, pouring, emitting or emptying of drift or debris. Drift. "Drift" means any substance or material, floatable or otherwise – including, but not limited to oil, sludge and oil refuse, gasoline, gas, offal, piles, lumber, timber, driftwood, dirt, ashes, cinders, mud, sand, dredged material, acid, chemicals, or any refuse – which may cause damage to any vessel or craft or which may obstruct the waters of the port of The City of New York, or which may be a hazard to any person, property or marine life. Furtherance of navigation. "Furtherance of navigation" means the activity on waterfront property which involves ship building, ship repairing, boating, dry-dock facilities and similar uses. Houseboat. "Houseboat" means any vessel or other craft with or without propulsion power and having a superstructure or substructure designed to be used principally for residential purposes. A houseboat may or may not have toilet, cooking, heating, lighting and/or bathing facilities. Marginal street. "Marginal street" means any street, road, place, area or way adjoining or adjacent to any waterfront property and designated as a marginal street, wharf or place on a plan or map adopted pursuant to law. Person. "Person" means any individual, party, trustee, firm, partnership, corporation, joint stock association, company, society, government agency, public authority, or other entity. The port of the City of New York. "The port of the City of New York" shall include all the waters of the North River, the East River and the Harlem River, and all the tidal waters embraced within or adjacent to or opposite the shores of The City of New York. Waterfront commerce. "Waterfront commerce" means the activity on waterfront property which encompasses the receipt of cargo or goods at the wharves, piers, docks or bulkheads from ships and their delivery to points inland, or the receipt of such cargo or goods at such wharves, piers, docks or bulkheads from points inland for shipment by ships, and shall include the temporary storage of such cargo or goods in the sheds or warehouses on such property pending their delivery or shipment. Waterfront property. "Waterfront property" means all property whether owned by The City of New York or privately owned, fronting on all the tidal waters in the port of The City of New York and including all upland extending inshore to the property line of the first adverse owner and shall include such land under water extending outshore to the pierhead line or the property line, whichever extends furthest outshore. This term includes all property defined as "wharf property" below. Wharf property. "Wharf property" means wharves, piers, docks and bulkheads and structures thereon and slips and basins, the land beneath any of the foregoing, and all rights, privileges and easements appurtenant thereto and land under water in the port of The City of New York, and such upland or made land adjacent thereto owned by The City of New York as is vested in or may be assigned to the Department of Ports and Trade.
