Bill Text: NY A08949 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Exempts certain vessels from the compulsory state pilotage requirement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-04-17 - signed chap.26 [A08949 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A08949-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8949 IN ASSEMBLY January 6, 2020 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation 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: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 88 of the navigation law, as 2 amended by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the navigation law 3 relating to exempting certain vessels from the compulsory state pilotage 4 requirement, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4200-A and A. 5 6703-A, is amended to read as follows: 6 1. Every foreign vessel and every American vessel under register 7 entering or departing from the Port of New York by the way of Sandy Hook 8 or by the way of Sands Point or Execution Rocks, shall take a Sandy Hook 9 pilot licensed under the authority of this article or of the laws of the 10 state of New Jersey or a person heretofore licensed as a Hell Gate 11 pilot. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision, recreational 12 vessels as defined in section 2101[(25)] (34) of title 46 of the United 13 States Code of less than two hundred feet in length may be exempted from 14 the compulsory state pilotage requirement at the discretion of the board 15 of commissioners of pilots. Whenever the services of such a pilot are 16 refused, the master, owners or consignees, shall pay pilotage as if one 17 had been employed. Such pilotage shall be paid to the pilot first speak- 18 ing or offering his services as pilot to such vessel. The pilotage 19 authorized to be collected whenever a pilot shall be refused by a vessel 20 shall be sued for and recovered in the name of the pilot tendering such 21 service. Such pilotage, when recovered, shall belong to and may be 22 retained by such pilot for his own benefit and use. Recreational vessels 23 as defined in section 2101[(25)] (34) of title 46 of the United States 24 Code may be exempted from the compulsory state pilotage requirement 25 pursuant to this subdivision at the discretion of the board of commis- 26 sioners of pilots. 27 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 89-a of the navigation law, as amended 28 by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the navigation law relating EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09703-04-0A. 8949 2 1 to exempting certain vessels from the compulsory state pilotage require- 2 ment, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4200-A and A. 6703-A, 3 is amended to read as follows: 4 1. Every foreign vessel and every American vessel under register, 5 except vessels proceeding otherwise than by sea and of less than three 6 hundred gross registered tons and having a fully loaded draft of seven 7 feet or less, entering or departing from the Hudson river north of a 8 line running from the foot of Main street, Yonkers, west to Alpine, New 9 Jersey, or navigating any of the waters of the Hudson river north of 10 said line and south of the dam at Troy, New York, shall take a Hudson 11 river pilot licensed under the authority of this article. Notwithstand- 12 ing the provisions of this subdivision, recreational vessels as defined 13 in section 2101[(25)] (34) of title 46 of the United States Code of less 14 than two hundred feet in length may be exempted from the compulsory 15 state pilotage requirement at the discretion of the board of commission- 16 ers of pilots. Whenever the services of such a pilot are refused, the 17 master, owners or consignees shall pay pilotage as if one had been 18 employed. Such pilotage shall be paid to the pilot first speaking or 19 offering his services as pilot to such vessel. The pilotage authorized 20 to be collected whenever a pilot shall be refused by a vessel shall be 21 sued for and recovered in the name of the pilot tendering such service. 22 Such pilotage, when recovered, shall belong to and may be retained by 23 such pilot for his own benefit and use. Recreational vessels as defined 24 in section 2101[(25)] (34) of title 46 of the United States Code may be 25 exempted from the compulsory state pilotage requirement pursuant to this 26 subdivision at the discretion of the board of commissioners of pilots. 27 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 89-b of the navigation law, as amended 28 by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the navigation law relating 29 to exempting certain vessels from the compulsory state pilotage require- 30 ment, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4200-A and A. 6703-A, 31 is amended to read as follows: 32 1. Every foreign vessel and every American vessel under register tran- 33 siting the New York state waters of Long Island Sound or Block Island 34 Sound east of Execution Rocks or Sands Point, and any such vessels 35 entering or departing from any port situated on the New York state 36 waters of Long Island Sound east of Execution Rocks or Sands Point, 37 shall take a Long Island-Block Island Sound pilot licensed under the 38 authority of this article. Every foreign vessel and every American 39 vessel under register transiting the New York state waters of Long 40 Island Sound or Block Island Sound east of a line running southeasterly 41 from the mouth of the Byram River at the New York-Connecticut boundary 42 to Oak Neck Point on Long Island shall take a pilot licensed under the 43 authority of this article or the laws of any other state having concur- 44 rent jurisdiction over these waters. Notwithstanding the provisions of 45 this subdivision, recreational vessels as defined in section 2101[(25)] 46 (34) of title 46 of the United States Code of less than two hundred feet 47 in length may be exempted from the compulsory state pilotage requirement 48 at the discretion of the board of commissioners of pilots. Whenever the 49 services of such a pilot are refused, the master, owners or consignees 50 shall pay pilotage as if one had been employed. The pilotage authorized 51 to be collected whenever a pilot shall be refused by a vessel shall be 52 sued for and recovered in the name of the pilot tendering such service. 53 Such pilotage, when recovered, shall belong to and may be retained by 54 such pilot for his own benefit and use. Recreational vessels as defined 55 in section 2101[(25)] (34) of title 46 of the United States Code may beA. 8949 3 1 exempted from the compulsory state pilotage requirement pursuant to this 2 subdivision at the discretion of the board of commissioners of pilots. 3 § 4. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 4 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the navigation law 5 relating to exempting certain vessels from the compulsory state pilotage 6 requirement, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4200-A and A. 7 6703-A, takes effect.