S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4200--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
March 4, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. LANZA, SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs,
Tourism, Parks and Recreation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to exempting certain
vessels from the compulsory state pilotage requirement
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 88 of the navigation law, as
amended by chapter 943 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as
follows:
1. Every foreign vessel and every American vessel under register
entering or departing from the Port of New York by the way of Sandy Hook
or by the way of Sands Point or Execution Rocks, shall take a Sandy Hook
pilot licensed under the authority of this article or of the laws of the
state of New Jersey or a person heretofore licensed as a Hell Gate
pilot. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION, RECREATIONAL
VESSELS AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2101(25) OF TITLE 46 OF THE UNITED STATES
CODE OF LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED FEET IN LENGTH MAY BE EXEMPTED FROM THE
COMPULSORY STATE PILOTAGE REQUIREMENT AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS OF PILOTS. Whenever the services of such a pilot are
refused, the master, owners or consignees, shall pay pilotage as if one
had been employed. Such pilotage shall be paid to the pilot first speak-
ing or offering his services as pilot to such vessel. The pilotage
authorized to be collected whenever a pilot shall be refused by a vessel
shall be sued for and recovered in the name of the pilot tendering such
service. Such pilotage, when recovered, shall belong to and may be
retained by such pilot for his own benefit and use. RECREATIONAL VESSELS
AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2101(25) OF TITLE 46 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE MAY
BE EXEMPTED FROM THE COMPULSORY STATE PILOTAGE REQUIREMENT PURSUANT TO
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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THIS SUBDIVISION AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF
PILOTS.
§ 2. Subdivision 1 of section 89-a of the navigation law, as amended
by chapter 838 of the laws of 1960, is amended to read as follows:
1. Every foreign vessel and every American vessel under register,
except vessels proceeding otherwise than by sea and of less than three
hundred gross registered tons and having a fully loaded draft of seven
feet or less, entering or departing from the Hudson river north of a
line running from the foot of Main street, Yonkers, west to Alpine, New
Jersey, or navigating any of the waters of the Hudson river north of
said line and south of the dam at Troy, New York, shall take a Hudson
river pilot licensed under the authority of this article. NOTWITHSTAND-
ING THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION, RECREATIONAL VESSELS AS DEFINED
IN SECTION 2101(25) OF TITLE 46 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE OF LESS THAN
TWO HUNDRED FEET IN LENGTH MAY BE EXEMPTED FROM THE COMPULSORY STATE
PILOTAGE REQUIREMENT AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF
PILOTS. Whenever the services of such a pilot are refused, the master,
owners or consignees shall pay pilotage as if one had been employed.
Such pilotage shall be paid to the pilot first speaking or offering his
services as pilot to such vessel. The pilotage authorized to be
collected whenever a pilot shall be refused by a vessel shall be sued
for and recovered in the name of the pilot tendering such service. Such
pilotage, when recovered, shall belong to and may be retained by such
pilot for his own benefit and use. RECREATIONAL VESSELS AS DEFINED IN
SECTION 2101(25) OF TITLE 46 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE MAY BE EXEMPTED
FROM THE COMPULSORY STATE PILOTAGE REQUIREMENT PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVI-
SION AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PILOTS.
§ 3. Subdivision 1 of section 89-b of the navigation law, as amended
by chapter 732 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows:
1. Every foreign vessel and every American vessel under register tran-
siting the New York state waters of Long Island Sound or Block Island
Sound east of Execution Rocks or Sands Point, and any such vessels
entering or departing from any port situated on the New York state
waters of Long Island Sound east of Execution Rocks or Sands Point,
shall take a Long Island-Block Island Sound pilot licensed under the
authority of this article. Every foreign vessel and every American
vessel under register transiting the New York state waters of Long
Island Sound or Block Island Sound east of a line running southeasterly
from the mouth of the Byram River at the New York-Connecticut boundary
to Oak Neck Point on Long Island shall take a pilot licensed under the
authority of this article or the laws of any other state having concur-
rent jurisdiction over these waters. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF
THIS SUBDIVISION, RECREATIONAL VESSELS AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2101(25) OF
TITLE 46 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE OF LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED FEET IN
LENGTH MAY BE EXEMPTED FROM THE COMPULSORY STATE PILOTAGE REQUIREMENT AT
THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PILOTS. Whenever the
services of such a pilot are refused, the master, owners or consignees
shall pay pilotage as if one had been employed. The pilotage authorized
to be collected whenever a pilot shall be refused by a vessel shall be
sued for and recovered in the name of the pilot tendering such service.
Such pilotage, when recovered, shall belong to and may be retained by
such pilot for his own benefit and use. RECREATIONAL VESSELS AS DEFINED
IN SECTION 2101(25) OF TITLE 46 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE MAY BE
EXEMPTED FROM THE COMPULSORY STATE PILOTAGE REQUIREMENT PURSUANT TO THIS
SUBDIVISION AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PILOTS.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.