§ 2-06 Obstructing Waterfront Property.
RCNY § 2-06
(a)No person shall impede, encumber or obstruct in any manner the free access to, egress from, or use of any wharf property or marginal street with any merchandise, cargo, goods, refuse or other material, or with a vehicle or vessel of any type.
(b)Any person owning, chartering, operating, occupying or using any vessel, craft, barge, ship, floating structure or aircraft that sinks or is in danger of sinking or stranding on or about any waterfront property shall remove the same, together with any cargo, without delay.
(c)Whenever any waterfront property or marginal street shall be encumbered or obstructed in its free use or for navigation by merchandise or material not affixed to such waterfront property or marginal street, or by any automobile, wagon, truck or cart, or by any floating, stranded or sunken vessel or craft, and the owner, consignee or person in charge thereof shall fail to remove the same when directed by an order issued by the Commissioner, the Commissioner may employ such labor and equipment as may be necessary to carry out such order. The Commissioner may store such merchandise, material, automobile, wagon, truck, cart, vessel or craft in a warehouse or other suitable place at the expense of the owner. Such owner, consignee, or person in charge of the merchandise, material, or automobile, wagon, truck, cart, vessel or craft so removed or stored may redeem the same upon payment to the Commissioner of the amount of all expenses actually and necessarily incurred in effecting such removal together with any charges for storage, pursuant to § 22-109 of the Administrative Code.
(d)No person shall place any vessel, craft or structure which is sinking, or is in such condition that there is a danger of it sinking or stranding, at any waterfront property.
