Section 33-4-30 Number of pilots; application, examination and certification required for license. (a) At no time shall there exist more apprentices or pilots than are reasonably necessary to meet the requirements of commerce, the number of apprentices and pilots to be left to the reasonable discretion of the State Pilotage Commission. (b) The commission shall […]
Section 33-4-31 Qualifications; age limitations for apprentices. (a) In order to prevent delays in the apprenticeship and branching of bar pilots, the commission shall when necessary maintain a register of applicants containing no more than nine applicants for apprenticeship, who must be not less than 18 years of age. (b) Applicants for apprenticeship from the […]
Section 33-4-32 Selection of apprentices. All apprentices, before becoming eligible for service as such apprentices, shall be selected and approved by said State Pilotage Commission. (Acts 1931, No. 81, p. 154, §10-B; Code 1940, T. 38, §58.)
Section 33-4-33 Apprentice not to be discharged except for cause; appeal of discharge. No Mobile Bay or bar pilot apprentice shall be discharged except for cause, and any such apprentice or boatkeeper so discharged may appeal from such discharge to the commission, and should the commission upon an investigation find that such discharge was without […]
Section 33-4-34 Application for license, etc., to be in writing accompanied by certificate and affidavit; branching or licensing according to seniority. A person, to be eligible to be branched or licensed as the next bar pilot, shall meet all of the following criteria at the time of branching or licensing: (1) Shall be the senior […]
Section 33-4-35 Examination and certification generally. Before an applicant is branched or licensed, the commission must prepare in writing suitable questions to test his knowledge and competency to become such pilot, who, without any aid from any other person and without having been informed as to what question would be propounded to him, shall answer […]
Section 33-4-36 Apprentice pilots not required to take second examination. No apprentice pilot who has successfully passed an examination for a Mobile Bay or bar pilot shall be required to undergo or pass another examination before being entitled to his license or status as a Mobile Bay and bar pilot, notwithstanding the board or commissioners […]
Section 33-4-37 Issuing licenses; possession and exhibition of licenses; oath of pilot. The State Pilotage Commission shall issue to each pilot licensed and branched by them an original and a duplicate certificate of his appointment, competency and authority to act as such pilot, and as to the extent thereof, and shall reissue duplicate certificates from […]
Section 33-4-38 Levy, payment, and disposition of pilot’s license tax. There is levied upon each licensed pilot engaged in service as a pilot under this chapter a license or privilege tax in the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) annually plus any reasonable additional assessment that arises and is necessarily incurred out of the performance […]
Section 33-4-39 Bond of pilot – Required; amount; conditions; renewal. Before receiving his branch, the pilot must make and deliver to the commissioners a bond payable to the chairman of the commission and his successors, in the penal sum of $2,000.00, with surety to be approved by the commissioners, and with conditions faithfully to perform […]
Section 33-4-40 Bond of pilot – Preserving bonds, etc.; new bonds; actions on bonds; liability. (a) The commissioners must preserve on file all bonds and affidavits taken from pilots, and may, whenever they consider it necessary, require a new bond to be executed. The pilot’s bond stands as security for any injury caused by the […]
Section 33-4-41 Revocation or suspension of license for cause – Generally. For any violation by any pilot of any of the provisions of this chapter, or any of the rules and regulations established by the commission under the authority conferred upon the said commission by the provisions of this chapter, or under any authority which […]
Section 33-4-42 Revocation or suspension of license for cause – Failure of witness to answer subpoena. On the failure to answer such subpoenas when so served, such witness shall forfeit the sum of $50.00, for which the said commission may, in its own name, bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction. (Acts […]
Section 33-4-43 Revocation or suspension of license for cause – Witnesses’ fees and mileage. Such witnesses shall be paid the sum of $1.50 a day during their attendance upon such commission at such hearing, and $.05 a mile for each mile traveled in going from their place of residence to the place of hearing and […]
Section 33-4-44 Revocation or suspension of license for cause – Issuance of subpoenas in behalf of pilot. Such pilot against whom such charges have been filed, upon depositing with the secretary of said commission an amount sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of serving such subpoenas, together with the mileage of such witnesses and […]
Section 33-4-45 Revocation or suspension of license for cause – Hearings; decision of commission. Such hearing shall be conducted under such rules and regulations as the commission may from time to time establish. The commission shall hear the testimony of the witnesses and may administer oaths to such witnesses, and false swearing, after the administration […]
Section 33-4-46 Grounds for depriving pilot of branch. The commission may deprive any pilot of his branch for a willful violation of his duties, or the orders or regulation of the commissioners, or for negligently losing or injuring any vessel in his charge; or when laboring under mental derangement or when so addicted to habits […]
Section 33-4-47 Penalty for acting without license. Any person who pilots a foreign vessel, or an American vessel under register, or any other vessel subject to the payment of pilotage fees under the provisions of this chapter, entering or leaving the Port of Mobile, in or out of the Bay of Mobile or over the […]
Section 33-4-48 Pay of pilots – Generally. (a) The master, owner, agent, or operator of any ship or vessel shall pay the pilot who conducts a vessel into or out of the Bay or Harbor of Mobile a fee to be fixed by the State Pilotage Commission at the following rate for actual draft of […]
Section 33-4-49 Pay of pilots – Time of payment. A pilot who has brought a vessel into port is entitled to his fees before her departure from port, to be paid in advance, or security given for the payment and, on failure thereof, may refuse to carry the vessel out. (Acts 1931, No. 81, p. […]
