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NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-7 - Order, judgment considered final agency action; judicial review.

12:8-7 Order, judgment considered final agency action; judicial review.  12:8-7. An order or judgment of the commission shall be considered final agency action for the purposes of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) and shall be subject only to judicial review as provided in Rules of Court. Any and all proceedings, hearings or meetings of the commission shall be conducted in conformance with the "Open Public Meetings Act," P.L.1975, c.231 (C. 10:4-6 et seq.) including disciplinary and license proceedings, complaints against pilots by users of pilotage services, rate disputes, and any other proceeding resulting in an opinion or order of the commission. Amended 2004, c.72, s.10.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-8 - Employment of maritime pilots; rotation system.

12:8-8 Employment of maritime pilots; rotation system.  12:8-8. Whenever the services of a maritime pilot are required to pilot a vessel in pilotage waters, the maritime pilots so to be employed shall be employed in rotation. The commission shall approve any changes in the rotation system by regulation. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the commission to establish, affect, regulate or control any rotation system or method of assignment of docking pilots or to approve or disapprove any changes in the contractual relationships between docking pilots and shipping or tugboat companies. Amended 1991, c.76, s.1; 2004, c.72, s.11.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-8.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-8.1 - Provision of vessels, aircraft for embarkation, disembarkation; inbound, outbound discharge.

12:8-8.1 Provision of vessels, aircraft for embarkation, disembarkation; inbound, outbound discharge.  31. The maritime pilots shall provide vessels or aircraft to embark and disembark maritime pilots to and from vessels required to take a maritime pilot. The general location and type of vessels or aircraft shall be approved by the commission after consultation with the maritime pilots and Commissioners of Pilotage of the State of New York. Maritime pilots assigned to inbound vessels or vessels operating on the waters of this State or boundary waters of this State and the state of New York are not entitled to their discharge until the vessel has arrived at a safe anchorage or is secure in a berth. Maritime pilots assigned to outbound vessels are not entitled to their discharge until the vessel has been brought to a safe anchorage or has reached the pilot station or a point substantially seaward of the sea buoys, or, upon their removal, of the entrance buoys, for Ambrose or Sandy Hook channels. L.2004,c.72,s.31.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-9 - Licensing of maritime, docking pilots.

12:8-9 Licensing of maritime, docking pilots.  12:8-9. No person shall be licensed as a maritime pilot or docking pilot of this State, except as hereinafter in this chapter provided. Amended 2004, c.72, s.12.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-9.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-9.1 - Pilotage requirements not extended.

12:8-9.1 Pilotage requirements not extended.  6. Nothing in this amendatory and supplementary act shall be construed to extend the requirement of pilotage to any type of vessel that is not required to be piloted pursuant to the laws of this State, and any rules or regulations established thereunder by the commission or that is otherwise exempted from the requirements of state pilotage regulations by statutes of the United States. L.1991,c.76,s.6; amended 2004, c.72, s.13.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-10 - Pilot boats in Sandy Hook service; apprentices, control and direction of; docking boats.

12:8-10 Pilot boats in Sandy Hook service; apprentices, control and direction of; docking boats.  12:8-10. The pilot boats employed by or belonging in whole or in part to the United New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots' Benevolent Association, or to the United New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots' Association, shall be the only maritime pilot boats in the New Jersey Sandy Hook pilot service, or in any bays, rivers, harbors, or ports of the waters of this State or approaches to the waters of this State between Sandy Hook, in the county of Monmouth and the city of Atlantic City, in the county of Atlantic. Apprentices shall be attached to the pilot boats of said association and the pilot boats may have more than one apprentice. The apprentices shall be entered in the books of the commission in the name of and indentured to the association, and shall serve as apprentices under the laws of this State.  The association shall have the sole control of all apprentices, subject to the regulations of the commission, until they have served a term of at least four years and shall see that all apprentices entered in the commission's books are fully instructed in their duties in such manner as is necessary to fully qualify them in every respect to perform the duties of a maritime pilot. Docking pilot boats may be employed by docking pilots for the performance of their duties as needed. Amended 1991, c.76, s.2; 2004, c.72, s.14.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-11 - Apprentices, term of service, license as deputy maritime pilot after examination.

12:8-11 Apprentices, term of service, license as deputy maritime pilot after examination.  12:8-11. Apprentices shall serve at least four years and for such longer periods of time as may be required by the commission. They shall be examined by the commission as directed by law and thereafter licensed as a deputy maritime pilot, at the discretion of the commission. The apprentices herein provided for shall be the only apprentices to be appointed or employed by the New Jersey Sandy Hook pilots. Amended 2004, c.72, s.15.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-12 - Licensing as Sandy Hook Pilot, requirements.

12:8-12 Licensing as Sandy Hook Pilot, requirements.  12:8-12. Only a person who has successfully served an apprenticeship with the United New Jersey or New York Sandy Hook Pilots' Benevolent Associations and passed an examination approved by the commission shall be licensed as a deputy maritime pilot or maritime pilot of the State of New Jersey. A person so licensed is to be known as a Sandy Hook Pilot. No New Jersey licensed maritime pilot or deputy maritime pilot may be licensed by another state without the prior permission of the commission and under such terms and conditions as the commission may require. Amended 2004, c.72, s.16.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-13 - Acting as maritime, docking pilot during emergency.

12:8-13 Acting as maritime, docking pilot during emergency.  12:8-13. Upon a specific finding of an emergency, the commission may permit for such time as the emergency exists and at its discretion, any person to act as a maritime or docking pilot as hereinafter provided for, off the bar of Sandy Hook, or of the river Raritan, or of the harbor of Jersey City, Newark or Perth Amboy, after having examined such person in the manner hereinafter mentioned and made such inquiries respecting such person and the person's qualifications as to the commission shall appear necessary and expedient. Amended 2004, c.72, s.17.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-14 - Examination for deputy maritime pilot license; eligibility.

12:8-14 Examination for deputy maritime pilot license; eligibility.  12:8-14. The commission, before granting to an applicant a license to serve as a deputy maritime pilot, shall require the applicant to pass a qualifying examination approved by the commission for such service, examining in particular, the applicant's knowledge of the tides, soundings, bearings and distances of the several shoals, rocks, bars and points of land, and such other matters deemed by the commission as relevant to the safe navigation of vessels in the navigation for which the applicant applies for a license. Only an applicant certified by the New Jersey or New York Sandy Hook Pilots' Benevolent Association as having successfully completed the apprenticeship shall be eligible to apply for a license to serve as a maritime deputy pilot. The examination shall be prescribed, administered and graded under the supervision of the commission and may be conducted in the presence of one or more full maritime branch pilots of this State. The commission shall by regulation establish grades of maritime pilots. For each grade, the commission shall specify the draft and tonnage of vessels a maritime pilot in that grade is authorized to pilot and the time in grade required to advance to the next highest grade. Maritime pilots achieving the highest grade shall be full branch maritime pilots. Amended 2004, c.72, s.18.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-15 - Certificate of appointment as a maritime pilot.

12:8-15 Certificate of appointment as a maritime pilot.  12:8-15. Certificate of appointment as a maritime pilot. The commission shall give to every person appointed by it as a deputy or full branch maritime pilot, a certificate of appointment or license signed by a majority of the commissioners. At the time the commission advances a maritime pilot in grade, the secretary shall endorse the certificate noting the advancement in grade. Amended 1987, c.435, s.1; 2004, c.72, s.19.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-16 - Oath taken by maritime pilot.

12:8-16 Oath taken by maritime pilot.  12:8-16. Whenever a person is first licensed as a maritime pilot, the president of the commission, or in the absence of the president, any commissioner, shall administer to that person the following oath: "I, A.B., do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I will well and faithfully, and according to the best of my skill and knowledge, execute and discharge the business and duty of a deputy or full branch maritime pilot for pilotage waters including, but not limited to, the bar, Jersey City, Newark, and Perth Amboy and harbor of Sandy Hook, and any bays, rivers, harbors, or ports of the waters of this State between Sandy Hook, in the county of Monmouth and the city of Atlantic City, in the county of Atlantic, and that I will at all times use my best endeavors to repair on board all ships and vessels that I shall see and conceive to be bound for, or coming into, or going out of the harbor and bodies of water aforesaid, unless I am well assured that some other licensed pilot is then on board the same; and I do further swear (or affirm), that I will, from time to time and at all times, make the best dispatch in my power to bring safely over the bar at Sandy Hook and into any bays, rivers, harbors, or ports of the waters of this State between Sandy Hook, in the county of Monmouth and the city of Atlantic City, in the county of Atlantic, every vessel committed to my care in coming in or going out; and that I will, from time to time and at all times, truly observe, follow and fulfill, to the best of my skill, ability, and knowledge, all such orders and directions as I shall or may receive from the New Jersey Maritime Pilot and Docking Pilot Commission, relative to all matters or things that may appertain to the duty of a pilot." Amended 1987, c.435, s.2; 1991, c.76, s.3; 2004, c.72, s.20.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-17.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-17.1 - Access to certain records of pilots.

12:8-17.1 Access to certain records of pilots.  38. A docking pilot or maritime pilot licensed by the State of New Jersey or applying for a license is deemed to authorize the commission to obtain, from time to time, the National Drivers Registry records pertaining to the docking pilot or maritime pilot and from his employer or association records pertaining to the docking pilot's or maritime pilot's participation in a drug testing program and the results of drug or alcohol tests issued by a testing facility. L.2004,c.72,s.38.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-18 - New licenses; forfeiture.

12:8-18 New licenses; forfeiture.  12:8-18. The commission may direct all maritime pilots to deliver up their former and take out new licenses whenever so required, but no maritime pilot shall be charged a fee for such a new license. Every maritime pilot not complying with these conditions shall forthwith forfeit his license and be disqualified to act as a maritime pilot for twelve months, and shall afterwards obtain no maritime pilot's license unless he be readmitted under the same formalities as one applying in the first instance. Amended 2004, c.72, s.21.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-19 - Revocation, suspension of license; grounds.

12:8-19 Revocation, suspension of license; grounds.  12:8-19. The commission may, upon majority vote of its authorized membership, revoke or suspend the license or route or reduce the grade of a maritime pilot or the license of a docking pilot who has willfully or negligently infringed on or violated this chapter or the regulations of the commission, or has failed to perform the duties in a manner expected of a prudent maritime pilot or docking pilot or the commission may set such other conditions as it deems appropriate for such infringement or violation. An order or judgment of the commission shall be considered a final agency action for the purposes of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) and shall be subject only to judicial review as provided in Rules of Court. Amended 2004, c.72, s.22.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-20 - Surrender of license.

12:8-20 Surrender of license.  12:8-20. If a maritime pilot or a docking pilot has forfeited any license or is no longer entitled to the use of such license by virtue of sections 12:8-18 and 12:8-19 of this title, and of section 36 of P.L.2004, c.72 (C.12:8-52), the commission shall demand the surrender of the license. Upon a refusal to give up the license on demand, the commission shall notify those individuals and agencies as it shall deem appropriate and necessary, that such person has no longer a right to act as a maritime pilot or a docking pilot. Amended 2004, c.72, s.23.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-21 - Notice, hearing of revocation of license, suspension from acting as pilot, or reduction in grade.

12:8-21 Notice, hearing of revocation of license, suspension from acting as pilot, or reduction in grade.  12:8-21. Before a maritime pilot or a docking pilot shall be deprived of a license, or suspended from acting thereunder, or reduced in grade, he shall be compelled to appear before the commission to show cause against his suspension or the revocation of his license or reduction in grade. The notice shall be delivered to such maritime pilot or docking pilot not less than fifteen days before the time specified in the notice for his appearance. If the maritime pilot or docking pilot neglects or refuses to appear before the commission at the time specified in the notice, or if the cause shown by him against his suspension, or the revocation of his license or reduction in grade shall appear insufficient to the commission, it may, upon a majority vote of the full membership of the commission, either revoke the license or suspend him from acting as a maritime pilot or a docking pilot or reduce him in grade; except that the president of the commission, or in the absence of the president, the president's designee, may immediately and temporarily, for a period not to exceed 30 days, suspend the license of any maritime pilot or docking pilot upon a determination that, because of the maritime pilot's or docking pilot's mental or physical health or use of alcohol or controlled dangerous substance, the pilot cannot safely perform the pilot's duties. An order or judgment of the commission shall be considered final agency action for the purposes of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) and shall be subject only to judicial review as provided in the Rules of Court. Amended 2004, c.72, s.24.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-24.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-24.1 - Fees for maritime pilotage, use of pilotage rates.

12:8-24.1 Fees for maritime pilotage, use of pilotage rates.  32. The fees for maritime pilotage for vessels not exempted from State pilotage by this chapter or any law of the United States shall be as follows: a. For every vessel entering or departing or underway on the pilotage waters, but not including those south of Sandy Hook, the pilotage rates shall be the same as those charged by maritime pilots licensed by the state of New York; except that, unless otherwise ordered by the commission, a change in rates by New Jersey licensed pilots shall not be effective until thirty days after the effective date of a rate change by pilots licensed by the state of New York. b. Pilotage rates for vessels entering or departing ports and underway on waters of ports south of Sandy Hook to, and including, Atlantic City shall be established by the commission. c. Maritime pilotage rates for intermediate or intra-harbor movement of vessels shall be established by the commission after conferring with the New York Pilotage Commission.  d. Nothing in this section shall pertain to the rates charged by docking pilots. L.2004,c.72,s.32.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-31 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-31 - Pay of maritime pilot carried to sea.

12:8-31 Pay of maritime pilot carried to sea.  12:8-31. A maritime pilot who is carried to sea when a boat is attending to receive him shall receive at the rate of 500 dollars per day and his reasonable expenses during his absence. Amended 2004, c.72, s.25.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-35 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-35 - Vessels required to take maritime pilot; exceptions.

12:8-35 Vessels required to take maritime pilot; exceptions.  12:8-35. Every United States vessel and every foreign vessel shall take a State-licensed maritime pilot when entering or leaving pilotage waters and shall take a licensed maritime pilot or docking pilot, as provided for herein, when otherwise underway in pilotage waters. This requirement shall not apply to: a. a vessel documented under the United States flag and operating in a coastwise trade; or b. a public vessel of the United States or a vessel otherwise exempt from state pilotage regulation by United States law; or c. a yacht of less than 200 feet in length. If a regulated vessel underway on State pilotage waters fails to take a maritime pilot, the master, owner, agent or charterer shall pay the pilotage fees as if one had been employed and be subject to penalties under the commission's regulations. Amended 1991, c.76, s.4; 2004, c.72, s.26.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-35.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-35.1 - Rights of owner, operator, master of vessel.

12:8-35.1 Rights of owner, operator, master of vessel.  39. Nothing in this chapter shall affect the right of the owner, operator or master of a regulated vessel to choose, select or engage an individual docking pilot or tugboat company, or be construed to permit the commission to exercise any control or authority over docking pilot rates, pensions, benefits or other compensation of docking pilots. L.2004,c.72,s.39.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-36 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-36 - Licensed pilots not required for New Jersey coasting vessels

12:8-36. Licensed pilots not required for New Jersey coasting vessels  No citizen of this state, being master of a vessel navigated under a coasting license, employed in the coasting trade, and whose vessel is bound either in or out of any of the waters of this state or over which it has concurrent jurisdiction with other states, constituting waters wherein pilotage is usually demanded or received whether the same be in or out of the capes of the Delaware river, in the Delaware river or bay, or in or over the bar of Sandy Hook, shall be required to employ a licensed pilot.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-37 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-37 - Pilotage to be taxed or certified when amount disputed

12:8-37. Pilotage to be taxed or certified when amount disputed  If the owner or consignee of a vessel is dissatisfied with the amount of pilotage charged against the vessel, the pilot shall have the amount of pilotage claimed by him taxed or certified by the commissioners who shall examine and certify the same without charge. No action shall be maintained for such pilotage until the same has been so taxed or certified.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-38 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-38 - Liability for pilotage; where payable

12:8-38. Liability for pilotage; where payable  The master, owner, agent or consignee entering or clearing the vessel shall be jointly and severally liable for the pilotage which shall be payable at either of the ports of Jersey City, Newark, Perth Amboy or New York.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-39 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-39 - Master to give pilot draft of vessel; penalty, proceeding, judicial review.

12:8-39 Master to give pilot draft of vessel; penalty, proceeding, judicial review.  12:8-39. Every master of a vessel shall give an account to the maritime pilot and docking pilot, when boarding, of the deep drafts, air drafts and other information necessary to the safe navigation of the vessel. If the information is not provided or incorrect, the master shall be liable to a penalty of up to twenty-five thousand dollars which may be sued for by the commission and applied to the General Fund of the State. Any proceeding of the commission in this regard shall be conducted in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), and any finding of the commission shall be considered final agency action for the purposes of such statute and shall be subject only to judicial review as provided in the Rules of Court. Amended 2004, c.72, s.27.
NJ Rev Stat § 12:8-40 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation|Section 12:8-40 - Maritime pilots to account for fees.

12:8-40 Maritime pilots to account for fees.  12:8-40. The maritime pilots shall, once in each month, account to the commission for the fees received by them for pilotage. The commission may require such additional financial information as it deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, provided that such additional information, being proprietary, shall not be subject to public disclosure under P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.). Amended 2004, c.72, s.28.