Informal Opinion No.

Stanley S. Corwin, P.C. Village Attorney, Dering Harbor

The southerly boundary of the village for which you serve as village attorney, and which is located in the County of Suffolk, is coterminous with the high-water mark of a body of navigable water. By virtue of a colonial land grant, the town in which the village is located has jurisdiction of the water and underlying land from the high-water mark to the distance described in such grant.* Based upon your letter and a telephone conversation with this office, you ask whether, in view of such town jurisdiction, the village may regulate…