2006 New York Code - Definitions.

 
    § 911. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall
  have  the  meaning  ascribed  to  them,  unless  the  context  otherwise
  requires:
    1. "Coastal area" shall mean (a) the state's coastal waters,  and  (b)
  the  adjacent  shorelands,  including landlocked waters and subterranean
  waters, to the  extent  such  coastal  waters  and  adjacent  lands  are
  strongly  influenced  by  each  other  including,  but  not  limited to,
  islands, wetlands, beaches,  dunes,  barrier  islands,  cliffs,  bluffs,
  inter-tidal  estuaries and erosion prone areas. The coastal area extends
  to the limit of the state's jurisdiction on the water  side  and  inland
  only  to encompass those shorelands, the uses of which have a direct and
  significant impact on the coastal waters. The  coastal  area  boundaries
  are  as  shown  on  the  coastal  area  map on file in the office of the
  secretary of state as required in section nine hundred fourteen of  this
  article.
    2. "Coastal area boundaries" shall mean the boundaries prepared by the
  secretary  of  state  pursuant  to  section  forty-seven of chapter four
  hundred sixty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred seventy-five.
    3. "Coastal waters" means lakes Erie and Ontario, the St. Lawrence and
  Niagara rivers, the Hudson river south of the federal dam at  Troy,  the
  East  river,  the  Harlem river, the Kill von Kull and Arthur Kill, Long
  Island sound and the Atlantic ocean, and their connecting water  bodies,
  bays, harbors, shallows and marshes.
    4.  "Inland  waterways"  shall mean (a) the state's major inland lakes
  consisting of lakes Big Tupper, Black, Canandaigua,  Cayuga,  Champlain,
  Chautauqua,   Conesus,  Cranberry,  George,  Great  Sacandaga,  Honoeye,
  Indian, Keuka, Long, Oneida, Onondaga, Otisco, Otsego, Owasco, Raquette,
  Sacandaga, Saratoga, Schroon, Seneca, Skaneateles and Saranac,  and  the
  Fulton  chain  of  lakes;  (b) the state's major rivers comprised of the
  Ausable, Black, Boquet, Chemung, Delaware, Deer, Genesee, Grasse, Hudson
  north of the federal dam at Troy, Indian, Little Salmon (including north
  and  south  branches),  Mad,  Mohawk,  Oswegatchie,  Racquette,  Salmon,
  Saranac,  Susquehanna  and  Tioughnioga rivers, and the north and middle
  branches of the Moose river; (c) the state's major creeks  comprised  of
  the  Cincinatti,  Fish (including east and west branches), Little Sandy,
  Sandy, and South Sandy; (d) the Barge Canal System as defined in section
  two of the canal law; and (e) the adjacent shorelands to the extent that
  such inland waters and adjacent lands are strongly  influenced  by  each
  other  including, but not limited to, islands, wetlands, beaches, dunes,
  barrier islands, cliffs, bluffs and erosion prone areas.
    5. "State agency" means any  department,  bureau,  commission,  board,
  public  authority  or  other  agency  of the state, including any public
  benefit corporation any member of which is appointed by the governor.
    6. "Comprehensive harbor management plan" shall mean a plan to address
  the problems of conflict, congestion and competition for  space  in  the
  use  of harbors, surface waters and underwater lands of the state within
  a city, town or village or abounding  a  city,  town  or  village  to  a
  distance  of  fifteen  hundred feet from shore. A harbor management plan
  must consider regional needs and, where applicable,  must  consider  the
  competing   needs  of  commercial  shipping  and  recreational  boating,
  commercial and recreational fishing and  shellfishing,  aquaculture  and
  waste   management,   mineral   extraction,   dredging,  public  access,
  recreation,  habitat  and  other  natural  resource  protection,   water
  quality,  open  space,  aesthetic  values  and  common  law  riparian or
  littoral rights, and the public interest in such lands underwater.
    7. "Water dependent use" means an activity which can only be conducted
  on, in, over or adjacent to a water body because such activity  requires
  direct  access  to  that  water body, and which involves, as an integral
  part of such activity, the use of the water.