Section 32 of the Navigation Law provides that no person may erect or replace a dock, wharf, pier, jetty, platform or other structure built on floats, columns, open timber, piles or similar open-work supports in navigable waters of the State which interferes with the free and direct access of any other person without such person's written permission. This Part shall apply in all administrative proceedings brought pursuant to section 32 of the Navigation Law.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 9 § 274.1