§ 76-55 – Commissioners of navigation to designate place for trash.
76-55. Commissioners of navigation to designate place for trash. The several boards of commissioners established by this Chapter may, subject to such regulations as the United States may make, designate the places whereat, within the waters under their several and respective control, may be cast and thrown ballast, trash, stone, and like matter. (1833, c. […]
§ 76-56 – Harbor master; how appointed where no board of navigation.
76-56. Harbor master; how appointed where no board of navigation. Where no board of navigation exists the governing body of any incorporated town, situated on any navigable watercourse, shall have power to appoint a harbor master for the port, who shall have the same power and authority in their respective ports as the harbor master […]
§ 76-57 – Rafts to exercise care in passing buoys, etc., penalty.
76-57. Rafts to exercise care in passing buoys, etc., penalty. If any person having charge of any raft passing any buoy, beacon, or day mark, shall not exercise due diligence in keeping clear of it, or, if unavoidably fouling it, shall not exercise due diligence in clearing it, without dragging from its position such buoy, […]
§ 76-58 – Interfering with buoys, beacons, and day marks.
76-58. Interfering with buoys, beacons, and day marks. If any person shall moor any kind of vessel, or any raft or any part of a raft, to any buoy, beacon, or day mark placed in the waters of North Carolina by the authority of the United States Lighthouse Board, or shall in any manner hang […]
§ 76-45 – Bond of pilot.
76-45. Bond of pilot. Every person, before he obtains a commission or a branch to be a pilot, shall give bond with two sufficient sureties payable to the State of North Carolina, in the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00), with condition for the due and faithful discharge of his duties, and the duties of […]
§ 76-46 – Pilots to have spyglasses.
76-46. Pilots to have spyglasses. Every pilot, within such convenient time as the commissioners may direct, who has control over the waters within which he acts, shall furnish himself with a good telescope or spyglass, under the penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00), to be paid to the commissioners. (1790, c. 320, s. 3; R.C., c. […]
§ 76-47 – Acting as pilot without license.
76-47. Acting as pilot without license. If any person shall act as a pilot, who is not qualified and licensed in the manner prescribed in this Chapter, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor: Provided, that should there be no licensed pilot in attendance, any person may conduct into port any vessel in […]
§ 76-48 – Penalty on pilot neglecting to go to vessel having signal set.
76-48. Penalty on pilot neglecting to go to vessel having signal set. When any pilot shall see any vessel on the coast, having a signal for a pilot, or shall hear a gun of distress fired off the coast, and shall neglect or refuse to go to the assistance of such vessel, such pilot shall […]
§ 76-49 – Pilots may be removed.
76-49. Pilots may be removed. Unless otherwise provided in the first Article of this Chapter for the Cape Fear River, whenever any pilot appointed, as authorized in this Chapter, shall, on trial, be found incompetent, or shall be guilty of improper conduct by intoxication or otherwise, or of any misbehavior in his office, or shall […]
§ 76-50 – Pilots refused, entitled to pay.
76-50. Pilots refused, entitled to pay. If a branch pilot shall go off to any vessel bound in, and offer to pilot her over the bar, the master or commander of such vessel, if he refuses to take such pilot, shall pay to such pilot, if not previously furnished with one, the same sum as […]