§ 2-04 Maintenance, Repair, Reconstruction or Demolition and Removal of Privately Owned Waterfront Property and Deepening of Adjoining Water.
RCNY § 2-04
(a)No person owning, leasing, using or occupying any marginal street or waterfront property, or any wharves, piers, docks, bulkheads or structures wholly or partly thereon, shall knowingly maintain all or any portion thereof in an unsafe condition, or not in good repair, or in a condition which impedes or endangers any person or property. No person owning, leasing, using or occupying any other structure in the port of the City of New York used in conjunction with and in furtherance of waterfront commerce and/or navigation shall knowingly maintain all or any portion of the same in an unsafe condition, or not in good repair, or in a condition which impedes or endangers any person or property.
(b)Any person owning, leasing, using or occupying any waterfront property or marginal street, or any wharves, piers, docks, bulkheads or structures wholly or partly thereon, shall comply forthwith with all orders of the Commissioner to repair, reconstruct, maintain, fill in, demolish or remove all or any part of such property or anything therein or thereon to correct any condition determined by the Commissioner to be unsafe or not in good repair, or which impedes or endangers any person or property. Any person owning, leasing, using or occupying any other structure in the port of The City of New York used in conjunction with and in furtherance of waterfront commerce and/or navigation shall comply forthwith with all orders of the Commissioner to repair, reconstruct, maintain, fill in, demolish or remove all or any part of such structure or anything therein, to correct any condition determined by the Commissioner to be unsafe, or not in good repair, or which impedes or endangers any person or property.
(c)Any person owning, leasing, using or occupying waterfront property, or any wharves, piers, docks, bulkheads or structures wholly or partly thereon, shall comply forthwith with all orders of the Commissioner directing that the water near or adjoining such property be deepened, or that obstacles in the water be removed, by excavating or removing such obstacles or earth, mud, dirt or sand therefrom in such places, quantities and at such times as the Commissioner may determine as necessary to insure safety to any person or property.
