Section 35-A. Floating objects other than aids to navigation

1.  The
  commissioner may authorize, through the issuance of a revocable  permit,
  the  placing  in  the  navigable  waters of the state, of mooring buoys,
  bathing beach markers, swimming floats, speed zone markers, or any other
  floating object having no navigational significance, if in  his  opinion
  the placing of such floating object will not be a hazard to navigation.
    2. The commissioner is hereby authorized to make rules and regulations
  for the issuance of such permits and he shall establish a uniform system
  of marking all floating objects that he authorizes to be placed.
    3.  Adjacent upland owners may place one mooring buoy and one swimming
  float of not more than one hundred square feet of surface area,  in  the
  waters  adjacent  to  and  within  the  boundaries  of  their shoreline,
  provided however, that no floating object and no vessel or part  thereof
  which  is  secured  to a mooring buoy shall at any time extend more than
  one hundred feet from shore and further provided that no floating object
  may be placed 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.  The  commissioner shall have the right to remove or
  alter the location of  any  such  buoy  or  float  in  the  interest  of
  navigation.
    4.  The  commissioner  may,  by  rule, regulation, or order, designate
  lakes, or areas within lakes, in which fishing buoys may be placed.  The
  commissioner  shall  specify  the  size,  shape,  color  and material of
  construction for such buoys, the manner of placing same and the type  of
  ground  tackle  to  be  used.  No  fishing  buoys  may  be placed in the
  navigable waters of the state except as specified by the commissioner in
  rules and regulations authorized herein.
    5. The commissioner may prescribe a reasonable service charge to cover
  the cost of issuance of permits authorized  by  this  section.  Revenues
  from  such  service  charges  shall  be  deposited  into  the "I love NY
  waterways"  boating  safety  fund  established   pursuant   to   section
  ninety-seven-nn of the state finance law.
    6.  The  provisions  of  this  section which pertain to the mooring of
  vessels shall not apply to areas in which local ordinances so pertaining
  have been duly approved by the commissioner or in  which  areas  federal
  laws  or  rules  and  regulations  regulate  the anchoring or mooring of
  vessels.
    7. A violation of this section or the rules and regulations authorized
  herein shall constitute an offense punishable by a fine of not to exceed
  fifty dollars.