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Article 4 - VESSELS
Part 1 - (40 - 49-C) VESSELS, GENERAL
42 - Searchlights; unlawful to flash.

§ 42. Searchlights;  unlawful  to  flash.  Any licensed master, pilot,
  joint pilot and engineer or operator, who shall flash  or  cause  to  be
  flashed, the rays of a searchlight into the pilot house or into the eyes
  of  the  master,  pilot,  or  operator of an approaching vessel shall be
  liable to have his license revoked.   Any  person  committing  such  act
  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor punishable as set forth in section
  seventy-three-b of this article. Searchlights  shall  not  be  known  as
  navigating lights.

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