New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Subtitle G - Office of General Services
Chapter II - Division Of Land Utilization
Part 274 - Interference With Riparian Rights
Section 274.4 - Complaint

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024

A complaint must include:

(a) Names and addresses of parties, name of the water body involved and the municipality (city, village, town and county) in which it is situated.

(b) Copies of deeds to the properties or other documentary evidence of the basis of the rights or interference claimed and tax map of the area.

(c) Map or drawing showing complainant's waterfront, structures or facilities if any in the water or along the water's edge and respondent's waterfront structures and the configuration of the shoreline for 100 feet on either side of the complainant's frontage. Maps should show property lines within 25 feet of the shore extending inland from the waters edge and distances to scale.

(d) A statement in narrative form explaining why the respondent's facilities do or will interfere with the complainant's free and direct access to navigable water. The complainant must establish that such person has the right to access which is being denied and that the actions of the respondent constitute a denial of the exercise of that right.

(e) Copies of all applicable permits issued by Federal, State and/or local agencies including Coastal Zone Management consistency statements and zoning variances.

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