NY Nav L § 97 (2021)
2021 New York Laws NAV - Navigation Article 6 - Pilots and Pilotage Fees, Port of New York 97 - Miscellaneous Provisions.

§ 97. Miscellaneous  provisions. 1. All actions and proceedings by the   board of commissioners to enforce any liability or to recover any fines,   penalties or forfeitures given by law to such officers, or to the  board   of  commissioners, may be brought and prosecuted by such officers in the   name of the board. Whenever, by law, any notice is required to be  given   by  such  officers,  or  board,  a notice signed by the president of the   board for the time being, and containing a copy of the provisions  under   or  pursuant  to  which  such  notice  is  given,  shall be a sufficient   compliance with the requirements of the law in respect to the giving  of   such  notice,  provided the commissioners ratify and adopt the same by a   majority vote, within twenty days after the giving of such notice.  This   subdivision  shall  not  apply to any notice required to be given in the   progress of any action or special legal proceedings.2. It shall be the duty of the commissioners, out of any  funds  which   they  may  obtain  to  provide rewards to encourage the prompt relief of   disabled vessels and the speedy report of the  same,  and  generally  to   encourage  not  only  the  performance  of  duty, but efforts to relieve   vessels and passengers from distress or suffering.3. The master of every vessel boarded by a pilot shall give such pilot   on boarding, an account of the draught of such vessel.  If  the  draught   given  is less than the actual draught, the master shall forfeit the sum   of twenty-five dollars, which may be sued for and recovered in an action   commenced in the name of the board of commissioners.4. It shall be the duty of every branch and deputy pilot belonging  to   the  port  to  use  his  utmost endeavors to hail and to interrogate the   master of every vessel he shall discover entering the port in  reference   to  all matters necessary to enable such pilot to determine whether such   vessel is subject to quarantine.5. If from the answers obtained from such inquiries  it  shall  appear   that  such  vessel  came  from  a  port  where any quarantinable disease   existed at the time of her departure, or that any case of  such  disease   shall  have  occurred  on  board  during  the  passage,  the pilot shall   immediately direct the master of the vessel to proceed to and anchor  at   the   quarantine   anchorage.  In  other  cases  of  vessels  liable  to   quarantine, he shall direct the masters thereof to proceed and anchor at   such point as shall be assigned by the  federal  health  officer  as  an   anchorage for such vessels.6.  The  fees  for the piloting of vessels over intermediate distances   within the waters subject to pilotage regulations under this article and   the amounts to be paid for detention of said pilots shall be established   by the board of commissioners.7. A pilot who is carried to sea  on  a  vessel  by  reason  of  heavy   weather  or  any  other  cause shall receive compensation of two hundred   dollars a day, his expenses shall be paid, and he shall be provided with   first class return transportation at the  earliest  possible  time.  The   compensation  and  costs shall be paid by the vessel, its owner, master,   charterer or agent.8. The master, owner, or consignee of any ship, or vessel, to whom any   pilot shall have rendered, upon the master's request any  extra  service   for  the preservation of such ship or vessel while in distress shall pay   such pilot, in addition to the pilotage fees provided by  this  article,   such  amount  for  extra  services  as  the board of commissioners shall   determine to be a reasonable reward.9. Pilotage fees as provided in this article shall be payable  by  the   master,  owner,  consignee,  or agent entering or clearing the vessel at   the port of  New  York,  who  shall  be  jointly  and  severally  liable   therefor.