If you are caught operating a boat after your boating license is suspended because of a boating while intoxicated conviction, you will be charged with the non-criminal offense of operating with a [...]
If you operate a boat in an intoxicated condition while your boating license is suspended because of a BWI or BWAI, you face a misdemeanor charge for operating with a suspended license. [...]
If you refuse to take a breath test your boating license will initially be suspended for 15 days during which a hearing will be conducted to determine whether you refused to take [...]
No. If you lose your boating license because of a BWI or BWAI, only your license to operate a vessel will be impacted. A BWI or a BWAI will have no consequences [...]
If you cause an injury to someone and are charged with boating while intoxicated, you may be charged with assault. The significance of the injuries caused, and the circumstances of the arrest [...]
If you are boating while intoxicated and recklessly cause the death of another person, you may be charged with manslaughter in the 2nd degree, a class C felony. If convicted of manslaughter [...]
In New York State, there are two different types of Reckless Endangerment charges contained in the New York State penal code. The first is Reckless Endangerment in the 2nd Degree, a Class [...]
A person is guilty of reckless endangerment in the second degree when he or she “recklessly” engages in conduct which creates a “substantial risk” of “serious physical injury” to another person. Examples [...]
Conduct by a person is considered reckless when: He or she engages in conduct which creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk of serious physical injury to another person, and; He or she [...]
Serious physical injury is defined as an impairment of a person’s physical condition which creates A substantial risk of death Causes death Causes serious and protracted disfigurement Protracted impairment of health Protracted [...]