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.
New York Legal Code