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AL Code § 33-4A-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-21 - Examination and Certification.

Section 33-4A-21Examination and certification. Before an applicant is branched or licensed, the commission shall prepare in writing suitable questions to test his or her knowledge and competency to become a bar pilot. The applicant, without any aid from any other person and without having been informed as to what question would be propounded, shall answer the questions. When the applicant has reduced his or her answers to writing, the applicant shall sign the same and deliver them to one of the commissioners, and the commission shall cause the answers to be copied legibly, but without the name of the applicant. The commission shall then appoint three fair, impartial, and competent nautical persons as a committee to examine the answers of the applicant. The applicant or applicants may name one of these, the existing pilots name another, and the commission, or a majority of them, shall name the third. The committee shall examine the copies of the answers of applicants and shall endorse upon the answer of the applicants as the commission finds sufficient the following certificate:  "We hereby certify that the foregoing answers are satisfactory, and that, in our opinion, the applicant making the same is well acquainted with the bar pilot grounds, knows how to handle both steam and sailing vessels, and is competent to perform the duties of a bay or bar pilot."  When the certificate is duly signed and delivered to the commission, the applicant shall be deemed qualified to receive a license. (Act 2019-162, §21.)
AL Code § 33-4A-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-22 - Passing Examination Entitles Apprentice Pilot to License, Etc.

Section 33-4A-22Passing examination entitles apprentice pilot to license, etc. An apprentice pilot who has successfully passed an examination for a Mobile Bay or bar pilot shall not be required to undergo or pass another examination before being entitled to his or her license or status as a Mobile Bay or bar pilot. (Act 2019-162, §22.)
AL Code § 33-4A-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-23 - Issuance of License; Possession and Exhibition of License; Oath of Pilot.

Section 33-4A-23Issuance of license; possession and exhibition of license; oath of pilot. The commission shall issue to each bar pilot licensed and branched by the commission an original and a duplicate certificate of his or her appointment, competency, and authority to act as a bar pilot, and as to the extent thereof, and shall reissue duplicate certificates from time to time, as the occasion may require. The original and duplicate certificates shall be signed by a majority of the commissioners or by the chair by the commission's direction. Each bay or bar pilot holding a license or branch shall keep upon his or her person, when offering his or her services to any vessel, his or her duplicate certificate and, upon demand of the proper officer of the vessel, shall exhibit the same and allow the officer to inspect it. Before issuing an original license or branch, the commissioners delivering the same to the appointee shall require him or her to take and subscribe in writing an oath as follows, to be administered by the commissioners:  "I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully and according to the best of my skill and judgment perform the duties of a bar pilot for the Bay and Harbor of Mobile; that I will at all times, wind and weather and health permitting, use my best exertions to repair on board all vessels which I shall see and conceive to be bound for, coming into or going out of the Harbor or Bay of Mobile, unless I am well assured that some other licensed bar pilot is then on board the same; that I will at all times make the best dispatch in my power to convey safely every vessel committed to my charge coming into or going out of the Bay or Harbor of Mobile; and will at all times well and truly observe, follow and fulfill, to the best of my skill and judgment, all such directions as I may receive from the commissioners of pilotage relative to things appertaining to the duty of a bar pilot, and I will not be a member at the same time of more than one combination or partnership of bar pilots. So help me God." (Act 2019-162, §23.)
AL Code § 33-4A-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-24 - Levy, Payment, and Disposition of Pilot's License Tax.

Section 33-4A-24Levy, payment, and disposition of pilot's license tax. There is levied upon each licensed bar pilot engaged in service as a bar 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 by the State Pilotage Commission of its duties imposed by law, to be paid to the secretary of the commission and to be used for defraying all expenses and expenditures of the commission accruing under this chapter. The commission, by proper resolutions, may permit the tax to be paid quarterly. The privilege or license taxes paid to the secretary of the commission shall become a part of the funds of the commission and shall be deposited by the secretary and otherwise handled and disbursed, as required by this chapter. (Act 2019-162, §24.)
AL Code § 33-4A-25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-25 - Bond of Pilot - Required; Amount; Conditions; Renewal.

Section 33-4A-25Bond of pilot - Required; amount; conditions; renewal. Before receiving his or her branch, the bar pilot must make and deliver to the commissioners a bond payable to the chair of the commission and his or her successors, in the penal sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) with surety to be approved by the commissioners, and with conditions faithfully to perform his or her duties as bar pilot; and this bond must be renewed every six years. (Act 2019-162, §25.)
AL Code § 33-4A-27 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-27 - Suspension or Revocation of License - Notice; Hearing.

Section 33-4A-27Suspension or revocation of license - Notice; hearing. For any violation by any bar pilot of any of the provisions of this chapter, or any of the rules established by the commission under the authority conferred upon the commission by this chapter, or under any authority which may be hereafter conferred upon the commission, the commission may suspend or revoke the license or branch of a bar pilot so violating the law or rules of the commission. The secretary of the commission shall notify the bar pilot in writing of the specific charge preferred against him or her, specifying with reasonable certainty the law or rule or regulation violated, the manner in which the same was violated, and the time and place of the offense, and, by direction of the commission, shall fix the time for hearing of the charges not less than five nor more than 30 days from the date of the notice. At the time and place set forth in the notice, the bar pilot may appear in person or by counsel, and the commission shall hear and determine the charges. The commission may subpoena witnesses; the subpoenas shall be served under the seal of the commission and attested by the signature of the secretary; and the subpoenas shall be served by the sheriff, according to the residence of the witnesses. The fees of the sheriff for serving the subpoenas shall be paid out of the funds of the commission. (Act 2019-162, §27.)
AL Code § 33-4A-28 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-28 - Suspension or Revocation of License - Witnesses' Fees.

Section 33-4A-28Suspension or revocation of license - Witnesses' fees. Witnesses may be paid a reasonable fee, as determined by the commission, for attendance at the hearing. The witness fees shall be paid out of the funds of the commission. (Act 2019-162, §28.)
AL Code § 33-4A-29 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-29 - Suspension or Revocation of License - Subpoenas.

Section 33-4A-29Suspension or revocation of license - Subpoenas. The bar pilot against whom the charges have been filed, upon depositing with the secretary of the commission an amount sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of serving the subpoenas, together with the mileage of the witnesses and an amount sufficient to cover at least three days' attendance of the witnesses, may require the secretary of the commission to issue subpoenas for witnesses in his or her behalf in the name of the commission, the subpoenas to be issued and served as in the case of subpoenas issued by the direction of the commission, and for failure of witnesses to attend upon being served with the subpoenas, the witness shall forfeit the sum of fifty dollars ($50), which the commission may collect by a civil action in its own name in a court of competent jurisdiction. (Act 2019-162, §29.)
AL Code § 33-4A-30 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-30 - Suspension or Revocation of License - Conduct of Hearings.

Section 33-4A-30Suspension or revocation of license - Conduct of hearings. The hearing shall be conducted under the rules as the commission may from time to time establish. The commission shall hear the testimony of the witnesses and may administer oaths to the witnesses, and false swearing, after the administration of the oath by the commission, shall constitute perjury under the laws of this state. The bar pilot may be represented by counsel at the hearing. Upon completion of the hearing, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the commission shall render its decision, and the decision shall be by a majority of the commission. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time as the commission may direct, but no bar pilot shall be suspended until the final decision by the commission. (Act 2019-162, §30.)
AL Code § 33-4A-31 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-31 - Grounds for Depriving Pilot of Branch.

Section 33-4A-31Grounds for depriving pilot of branch. The commission may deprive any pilot of his or her branch for a willful violation of his or her duties, or the orders or rules of the commission, or for negligently losing or injuring any vessel in his or her charge; or when laboring under mental derangement or when so addicted to habits of intoxication as to be unfit to be entrusted with the charge of a vessel. Any bar pilot who fails to act as such for three months, or absents himself or herself for 10 days at any one time from the Bay or Harbor of Mobile without leave of the commissioners, may be deprived of his or her branch. If, while a vessel in the Bay or Harbor of Mobile is in the charge of any civil officer by virtue of process from any court of record in this state, any bar pilot, with knowledge thereof, conducts or bar pilots the vessel out of the bay or harbor, he or she forfeits his or her branch, and is forever disqualified from acting as a bar pilot, and forfeits a sum of money as the jury may assess. (Act 2019-162, §31.)
AL Code § 33-4A-32 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-32 - Penalty for Acting Without License.

Section 33-4A-32Penalty 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 this chapter, entering or leaving the Port of Mobile, in or out of the Bay of Mobile or over the outer bar thereof, without a license from the commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Act 2019-162, §32.)
AL Code § 33-4A-33 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-33 - Pay of Pilots - Generally.

Section 33-4A-33Pay of pilots - Generally. (a) The master, owner, agent, or operator of any ship or vessel shall pay the bar pilot who conducts a vessel into or out of the Bay or Harbor of Mobile a fee to be fixed by the commission at the rate of thirty-eight dollars ($38) per draft foot for actual draft of water at the time of pilotage for every vessel crossing the outer bar of Mobile Bay. The minimum pilot fee shall be computed on a minimum of 15 feet regardless of whether or not the vessel has a draft of less than 15 feet at the time of pilotage. (b) In addition to the pilotage fee based on the draft of the vessel, the bar pilot shall also be paid a pilotage fee for every vessel crossing the outer bar of Mobile Bay in the sum of six and one-quarter cents ($0.0625) per ton. The minimum pilot fee shall be computed on a minimum of 6,500 maximum registered gross tons, regardless of whether or not the vessel has a maximum registered gross tonnage of less than 6,500 maximum registered gross tons. (c) In addition to the foregoing fees, the commission shall set fees for special services rendered by the bar pilots to vessels which are incidental to or connected with vessels being conducted into or out of the Bay or Harbor of Mobile which include, but are not limited to, docking and undocking, going on and off drydock, turning the vessel, shifting, anchorage and stand-by, and delayed sailing. (d) Vessels drawing seven feet or less of water shall not be required to employ a bar pilot, but if a bar pilot is employed, the regular pilotage shall be paid. (e) Effective January 1, 2020, the commission, annually at the first convened quarterly meeting after the release of official annual changes to the Consumer Price Index, shall adjust upward or downward the tariff rates to provide a cost-of-living adjustment to the applicable tariff rates. For purposes of this chapter, tariff rates are fees based on draft and tonnage and other fees referenced in subsections (a), (b), and (c). The commission shall use the Consumer Price Index published by the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Labor Statistics for the previous calendar year as a basis to make the necessary upward adjustments. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at its sole discretion, the commission, upon request from bar pilots or otherwise, may adjust tariff rates based on other economic consideration to an amount greater than increases based on changes in the Consumer Price Index for any given year. (f) No discounts or adjustments to rates and fees can be offered to shippers, owners, or any agents of shipping companies. (g) The schedule for all tariff rates and fees shall be maintained by the commission and available to interested parties upon written request. (Act 2019-162, §33.)
AL Code § 33-4A-34 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-34 - Pay of Pilots - Time of Payment.

Section 33-4A-34Pay of pilots - Time of payment. A bar pilot who has brought a vessel into port is entitled to his or her fees before the vessel's 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.  (Act 2019-162, §34.)
AL Code § 33-4A-35 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-35 - Pay of Pilots - Fees of Pilots Retained on Vessels.

Section 33-4A-35Pay of pilots - Fees of pilots retained on vessels. If the master of any vessel retains a bar pilot on board, the wind and weather permitting the vessel going to sea, the bar pilot is entitled to tariff fees as established and approved by the commission. (Act 2019-162, §35.)
AL Code § 33-4A-36 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-36 - Pay of Pilots - No Discrimination or Rebating of Pilot's Fees.

Section 33-4A-36Pay of pilots - No discrimination or rebating of pilot's fees. There shall be no discrimination among vessels subject to the payment of pilotage fees, and any person who rebates any pilotage fees or seeks a rebate of pilotage fees or in any manner creates or aids in creating any scheme or plan by which a discrimination is effected in favor of any vessel or the owners, masters, or operators thereof shall be subject to discipline by the commission, including, without limitation, having his or her license or branch revoked. (Act 2019-162, §36.)
AL Code § 33-4A-37 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-37 - Pay of Pilots - Exemptions From Payment of Pilot's Fees.

Section 33-4A-37Pay of pilots - Exemptions from payment of pilot's fees. All vessels, whether sail, steam, or propelled by any other motive power, including vessels, barges, and rafts in tow, engaged in coastwise trade, including those engaged in trade or plying upon the navigable rivers of the State of Alabama, and all vessels exempt under the laws, rules, or regulations of the government of the United States shall be exempt from payment of any pilotage fee whatsoever and shall not be required to have the services of a bar pilot in crossing the outer bar of Mobile Bay or navigating the waters of the bay or other navigable waters of the State of Alabama. (Act 2019-162, §37.)
AL Code § 33-4A-38 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-38 - Compulsory Retirement of Bar Pilots.

Section 33-4A-38Compulsory retirement of bar pilots. Every bar pilot licensed and branched by the commission upon reaching the age of 68 years shall be required to retire and surrender his or her license or branch to the commission. (Act 2019-162, §38.)
AL Code § 33-4A-39 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-39 - Vessels Required to Take Pilots.

Section 33-4A-39Vessels required to take pilots. All steam or motor vessels crossing the outer bar of Mobile Bay, except those exempt under this chapter, shall be conducted, controlled, or navigated by a bar pilot licensed by or under authority of the laws of the State of Alabama. (Act 2019-162, §39.)
AL Code § 33-4A-40 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 4A - State Pilotage Commission.|Section 33-4A-40 - Report of Unlawful Discharge of Ballast, Sweepings, Rubbish, etc., in Bay, Etc.

Section 33-4A-40Report of unlawful discharge of ballast, sweepings, rubbish, etc., in bay, etc. Every bar pilot, having knowledge of the discharge of ballast, sweepings, screenings, cinders, refuse, and rubbish of any kind in the Bay of Mobile or in any river emptying into the same, contrary to the law, as soon as practicable, shall give information thereof to the district attorney having jurisdiction in the Class 2 municipality. (Act 2019-162, §40.)
AL Code § 33-5A-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5A - Abandoned and Derelict Vessels|Section 33-5A-1 - Definitions.

Section 33-5A-1Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ABANDONED VESSEL. A vessel left unattended for four or more weeks after a hurricane, tropical storm, or other natural event resulting in a declaration of emergency by the Governor or, in the absence of a hurricane, tropical storm, or other natural event resulting in a declaration of emergency by the Governor, any of the following: a. A vessel left unattended that is moored, anchored, or otherwise in the waters of the state or on public property for a period of more than 10 days. b. A vessel not left on private property for repairs that is moored, anchored, or otherwise on private property for a period of more than 10 days without the consent of the owner or lessee of the property. c. A vessel left on private property for repairs that has not been reclaimed within 10 days from the latter of the date the repairs were completed or the agreed-upon redemption date. (2) AGENCY. The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency. (3) DERELICT VESSEL. A vessel in the waters of this state that satisfies any of the following: a. Is sunk, in danger of sinking, or is otherwise taking on water without an effective means to dewater. b. Is obstructing a waterway. c. Is endangering life or property. d. Has broken loose or is in danger of breaking loose from its anchor. e. Is listing due to water intrusion. f. Does not have an effective means of propulsion for safe navigation or is otherwise not seaworthy. (4) LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. An officer of a county, municipality, or any state agency, department, or subdivision thereof, who is certified by the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission. (5) VESSEL. Every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane, capable of being used as a means of transportation on the water. The term does not include a vessel built or constructed before the year 1918. (6) WATERS OF THIS STATE. Waters of this state as defined in Section 33-5-3. (Act 2018-179, §1.)
AL Code § 33-5A-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 5A - Abandoned and Derelict Vessels|Section 33-5A-2 - Removal.

Section 33-5A-2Removal. (a) A law enforcement officer may request a service to remove a vessel from public property under any of the following circumstances: (1) The vessel is determined by the officer to be abandoned. (2) The vessel is left unattended because the operator of the vessel has been arrested. (3) The vessel is determined by the officer to pose a threat to public health or safety. (4) The vessel is determined by the officer to be a derelict vessel. (b) An owner of private property may request a service to remove an abandoned or derelict vessel from the private property to a storage place. (c)(1) A law enforcement officer who directs the removal of a vessel in accordance with this chapter shall be liable only in accordance with Section 36-1-12. (2) A person who removes or stores a vessel in accordance with this chapter shall be liable for negligence only. (Act 2018-179, §2.)