New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 21 - Miscellaneous
Chapter II - Board of Commissioners of Pilots
Part 56 - Fines, Penalties And Forfeitures
Section 56.11 - Destruction or mutilation by pilot of official or authorized postings in pilot office, shore station or pilot boat; fine or suspension

Any pilot destroying or mutilating by erasure or otherwise any memorial, petition, or other paper posted up in a pilot office or shore station, or on board a pilot boat, by order of the commissioners or by order of the duly authorized executive officers or committee of any association or other body of pilots licensed by the commissioners of which he may be a member, shall be subject to a fine of $25 or to suspension, as the commissioners may determine.