Bill Text: NY S04855 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4855 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to liability of pilots.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-02-21 - PRINT NUMBER 4855B [S04855 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S04855-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4855--B
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 26, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  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 -- recommitted
         to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation in
         accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --  committee  discharged,  bill
         amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
         tee
       AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in  relation  to  the  liability  of
         pilots
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Section 97 of the navigation law is amended  by  adding  a
    2  new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
    3    10.  A  STATE  PILOT  IS  A SERVANT AND/OR AGENT OF THE VESSEL AND ITS
    4  OWNER, DEMISE CHARTERER AND OPERATOR ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF  A  DEFENSE
    5  TO LIABILITY FOR PILOTAGE SERVICES RENDERED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.
    6    S  2.   This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    7  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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