New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Chapter IX - Independent Agencies Within The Department
Subchapter A - Lake George Park Commission
Part 646 - Substantive Regulations
Subpart 646-2 - Special Navigational Rules
Section 646-2.6 - Miscellaneous provisions relating to certain recreational activities
Universal Citation: 6 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs § 646-2.6
Current through Register 47, No. 25, June 25, 2025
(a) Scuba diving.
(1) No person shall scuba dive in a navigable
channel or in any location in which it will interfere with free and safe
navigation or free access to another person's property. For the purpose of
these rules, navigable channels shall mean areas in which boats are restricted
in operation due to passage between points of land or, areas in which
navigation aids are located.
(2) No
person shall scuba dive in the waters of Lake George so as to knowingly annoy,
disturb, injure or endanger the health, comfort, repose or peace of another
person.
(b) Towing.
(1) A person being towed on the surface of
Lake George shall wear a United States Coast Guard approved Type III personal
flotation device.
(c) Artifacts. No person shall appropriate, excavate, remove, injure or destroy any historic shipwreck or artifact submerged in Lake George. This subdivision shall not apply to the State of New York or its authorized agents or representatives provided the excavation or removal is for the care and preservation of the shipwreck or artifact.
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