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2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:8-44 - Production of identity badge, card, documents.

12:8-44 Production of identity badge, card, documents.
12:8-44. The commission shall from time to time issue each commissioner, employee, maritime pilot and docking pilot a badge signifying his office. The commission shall, on the anniversary date of each maritime pilot and docking pilot, issue an identity card bearing a picture of the recipient, along with the recipient's description and other pertinent identifying information as the commission deems necessary for the security in the port of New York and New Jersey.
Every maritime pilot and docking pilot, on offering his services to the master of a vessel, shall produce and show to the master his identity badge, identity card or such documents as the commission may require by regulation.
Amended 2004, c.72, s.29.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:8-47 - Piloting without license, fourth degree crime; fine.

12:8-47 Piloting without license, fourth degree crime; fine.
12:8-47. Any person not holding a license as a maritime pilot or docking pilot under the laws of this State or of the state of New York, who shall pilot or offer to pilot a regulated vessel, on State pilotage waters, or any person on board a steam tug or towboat who shall tow a regulated vessel on pilotage waters not having a licensed pilot or docking pilot on board the tug or tow boat or on board the vessel shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree, except that the fine may be up to $50,000.
Amended 2004, c.72, s.30.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:8-48 - Disposition of penalties

12:8-48. Disposition of penalties
All forfeitures, fines and penalties recovered pursuant to this chapter and not otherwise appropriated, shall be applied, in the first instance, toward the payment of such costs of suit and disbursements of the commissioners, in their prosecutions and proceedings against offenders, as shall not be received by them from the parties prosecuted or proceeded against. The residue, if any, shall be accounted for and paid over on the first Monday in June in each year to the pilots' charitable fund for the benefit of that association.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:8-49 - Qualification of docking pilot without apprenticeship; requirements.

12:8-49 Qualification of docking pilot without apprenticeship; requirements.
33. Unless the commission for good cause determines otherwise, a person shall qualify within 12 months of the effective date of P.L.2004, c.72 (C.12:8-1.1 et al.) as a docking pilot without fulfilling the apprentice docking pilot requirements of this chapter if the person:
a. Has been regularly engaged, other than as a member of a vessel's crew, for the purpose of docking and undocking and the movement of not fewer than one hundred seagoing vessels of not less than ten thousand registered gross tons on the waters of the port of New York and New Jersey during the two-year period immediately prior to the effective date of P.L.2004, c.72 (C.12:8-1.1 et al.);
b. Holds a current first class pilot's license issued by the United States Coast Guard or a first class pilot endorsement to a license issued by the United States Coast Guard authorizing the piloting of vessels of any tonnage, and endorsed for the routes in which the services of a docking pilot are permitted, and executes an authorization permitting the commission to obtain from the United States Coast Guard information pertaining to the applicant's Coast Guard license and records;
c. Holds a current unlimited radar observer's certificate required by the United States Coast Guard;
d. Has participated in and successfully completed a United States Department of Transportation, Department of Homeland Security, or their successors' drug screening and testing program mandated for mariners and executed an authorization permitting the commission to obtain from that organization information pertaining to the applicant's drug screening and testing;
e. Has been examined by a licensed physician in the manner prescribed by the United States Coast Guard no less than once each year and been declared by the examiner competent to perform the duties of a docking master;
f. Submits an application for review and approval by the commission within six months of the effective date of P.L.2004, c.72 (C.12:8-1.1 et al.), which approval
shall not be unreasonably withheld; and
g. Pays any required annual fee established by the regulations of the commission, such fee not to exceed the reasonable cost of administration directly attributable to the licensing of docking pilots.
A docking pilot who meets the requirements of subsections a. through e. of this section and who submits the docking pilot's name and a summary of qualifications to the commission within 30 days of the effective date of P.L.2004, c.72 (C.12:8-1.1 et al.) may continue to perform the work of a licensed docking pilot until such time as the commission acts upon the application of that docking pilot. Prior to the issuance of a docking pilot license, such docking pilot shall be subject to all other provisions of this chapter, as if the license had been issued upon the effective date of P.L.2004, c.72 (C.12:8-1.1 et al.).
L.2004,c.72,s.33.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:8-50 - Documentation for consideration as docking pilot apprentice.

12:8-50 Documentation for consideration as docking pilot apprentice.
34. To be considered as a docking pilot apprentice, a person shall submit the following documentation to the commission:
a. A current first class pilot's license or a first class pilot endorsement to a license issued by the United States Coast Guard authorizing the piloting of vessels of any tonnage and endorsed for the waters for which service may be required and an authorization executed permitting the commission to obtain from the United States Coast Guard information pertaining to the applicant's Coast Guard license and records;
b. Evidence that the person holds a current unlimited radar observer's certificate required by the United States Coast Guard;
c. Evidence of participation in a United States Department of Transportation required drug screening and testing program;
d. Evidence of a current physical examination by a licensed physician in a manner prescribed by the United States Coast Guard and that the person has been declared competent by the physician to perform the duties of a docking pilot;
e. Written documentation that the person has not less than ten years' experience in the maritime industry, including, but not limited to, credits at an approved United States maritime college; and deck experience, provided that the person shall have served not less than five years as a licensed mate or master in the towing industry and is endorsed by an independent pilot association providing docking pilot services on pilotage waters; and
f. Such additional documentation as the commission may require by regulation.
L.2004,c.72,s.34.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:8-51 - Additional requirements for qualification as docking pilot.

12:8-51 Additional requirements for qualification as docking pilot.
35. To qualify as a docking pilot a person shall, in addition to the requirements of section 34 of P.L.2004, c.72 (C.12:8-50), have:
a. Performed at least 25 dockings or undocking movements of vessels not less than 10,000 gross tons on pilotage waters assisted by a tugboat or tugboats on routes for which the applicant applies to be licensed as a docking pilot under the supervision of a docking pilot;
b. Observed not less than 200 dockings or undockings of seagoing vessels of not less than 10,000 registered tons on pilotage waters assisted by a tugboat or tugboats under the close supervision of a docking pilot;
c. Successfully completed a docking pilot apprentice program approved by the commission prior to application to the commission for licensing as a docking pilot; and
d. Submitted an application to the commission for review and approval.
Upon having the application declared complete and acceptable by the commission, and endorsed by an independent pilot association, the applicant's name shall be added to a list of qualified docking pilots. After considering the need for additional qualified docking pilots, the commission may, in its sole discretion, thereafter appoint successful applicants as docking pilots. To ensure recency, prior to issuing a license under this section, the commission may require the applicant to conduct additional dockings, undockings and intra-harbor movements under the supervision of a licensed docking pilot.
L.2004,c.72,s.35.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:8-52 - Registration of docking pilots; fee.

12:8-52 Registration of docking pilots; fee.
36. The commission shall enter on a register maintained by it the names and status of all persons who demonstrate to the satisfaction of the commission that they meet the requirements of section 33 or 35 of P.L.2004, c.72 (C.12:8-49 or C.12:8-51) and who submit to the commission an initial license fee not to exceed the reasonable cost of administration directly attributable to the licensing of docking pilots and an annual license fee thereafter not to exceed the reasonable cost of administration directly attributable to the licensing of docking pilots. The commission may refuse to license or may suspend or revoke the license of any person who does not comply with the requirements of section 33 of P.L.2004, c.72 (C.12:8-49), or other lawful requirements of the commission.
L.2004,c.72,s.36.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:8-53 - Authority of docking pilots.

12:8-53 Authority of docking pilots.
37. a. A docking pilot is authorized upon the approval of the master of a vessel upon pilotage waters as defined in section 2 of P.L.2004, c.72 (C.12:8-1.2) to:
(1) Dock or undock vessels; direct the navigation of vessels within the harbor being moved from an anchorage to an anchorage or to a berth; direct the navigation of vessels within the harbor being moved from a berth to an anchorage or another berth; direct the navigation of vessels departing the port until relieved by a maritime pilot licensed by the commission or the Commissioners of Pilotage of the State of New York, at such locations where by custom and practice prior to the effective date of P.L.2004, c.72 (C12:8-1.1 et al.) such relief took place, provided that the maritime pilot, docking pilot and the vessel's master concur that the relief can be accomplished without compromising the safe navigation of the vessel; and
(2) Direct the navigation of vessels entering the port upon relieving a maritime pilot licensed by this commission or the Commissioners of Pilotage of the State of New York for the purpose of docking such vessels at such points where by custom and practice prior to the effective date of P.L.2004, c.72 (C.12:8-1.1 et al.) such relief took place, provided that the relief can be accomplished without compromising the safe navigation of the vessel.
b. Nothing in the provisions authorizing the licensing of docking pilots is intended to authorize licensed docking pilots to pilot regulated vessels on pilotage waters as they enter or leave the Port of New York and New Jersey.
c. Nothing in the provisions of this section is intended to preclude licensed maritime pilots from docking or undocking vessels, conducting in harbor movements of vessels or piloting vessels on pilotage waters.
d. When the services of a tugboat are employed to dock or undock a vessel, a docking pilot shall be employed by the vessel if requested by the vessel owner or agent.
L.2004,c.72,s.37.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:9-2 - Jurisdiction and powers

12:9-2. Jurisdiction and powers
The harbor masters may regulate and station all vessels in the bay of New York or in the North river, within the limits of Hudson county, and the wharves thereof, and remove such ships and vessels as are not employed in receiving and discharging their cargoes, to make room for such others as are required to be more immediately accommodated for the purpose of receiving and discharging cargoes. As to the fact of the vessels being bona fide employed in receiving and discharging their cargoes, the harbor masters, or either of them, shall be the sole judges. The harbor masters, or either of them, may determine how far and in what instances it is the duty of persons having charge of vessels to accommodate each other in their respective situations.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:9-3 - Adjusting differences with respect to position of coastwise vessels; fees

12:9-3. Adjusting differences with respect to position of coastwise vessels; fees
If upon application of the person having charge of any vessel employed in coasting trade within the United States and entering the bay of New York or the North river within the limits of Hudson county, the harbor masters, or either of them, shall adjust any difference respecting the situation or position of such vessel, they may demand from the party in default in the premises the sum of two dollars, excepting canal barges and boats, when the fee shall be one dollar, to be sued for and recovered in the names and for the use of the harbor masters.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:9-4 - Supervising cleaning of wharves and docks; removal of nuisances

12:9-4. Supervising cleaning of wharves and docks; removal of nuisances
The harbor masters shall superintend and enforce the execution of all laws of this state for cleaning the wharves and docks and for preventing and removing nuisances in or upon them. If the person whose duty it is to remove such nuisance shall neglect to remove it within forty-eight hours after notice from the harbor masters, or either of them, so to do, the harbor masters may demand and receive from such person the sum of two dollars and fifty cents. In case of nonpayment of such sum on demand, the same may be sued for and recovered in the names of and for the use of the harbor masters.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:9-6 - Restrictions on anchoring vessels in certain waters

12:9-6. Restrictions on anchoring vessels in certain waters
No vessel shall be anchored within three hundred yards of the end of a pier extending from the shore of New Jersey into the waters of New York harbor, or of the North or Hudson rivers, between a point in Jersey City due west from the westmost point of Ellis island, and a point in the North river known as Castle point in the city of Hoboken.
The harbor masters of Hudson county shall enforce this section.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:9-7 - Violations; penalty

12:9-7. Violations; penalty
Any person having charge of any vessel who shall refuse or neglect to obey the directions of the harbor masters, or either of them, in matters within their authority to direct, or any person who shall resist or oppose the harbor masters, or either of them, in the execution of the duties of their office, shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense to be recovered with costs of suit in the name of the state treasurer. All such penalties, when collected, shall be paid to the state treasurer.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:9-9 - Copy of laws to captain, owner or consignee of vessel

12:9-9. Copy of laws to captain, owner or consignee of vessel
The harbor masters shall give a copy of this article to the captain, owner or consignee of any vessel who shall request the same, and no person shall be fined for a violation of this article until that has been done.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:9-11 - Bond

12:9-11. Bond
The harbor master, before entering upon his duties, shall execute a bond to the state of New Jersey in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the mayor of the city of Elizabeth conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. He shall perform all the duties, exercise all the powers and derive all the emoluments imposed and authorized by this article.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:9-12 - Jurisdiction and powers

12:9-12. Jurisdiction and powers
The harbor master may regulate and station all vessels in the harbor of Elizabeth and Elizabeth creek, and remove from time to time such vessels as are not employed in receiving and discharging their cargoes, to make room for such others as require to be immediately accommodated for such purposes. As to the fact of the vessels being bona fide employed in receiving and discharging their cargoes, the harbor master shall be the sole judge. The harbor master may determine how far and in what instances it is the duty of persons having charge of vessels to accommodate each other in their respective situations.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:9-13 - Violations; penalty

12:9-13. Violations; penalty
Any person having charge of a vessel who shall refuse or neglect to obey the direction of the harbor master in matters within his authority to direct, or any person who shall resist or oppose the harbor master in the execution of the duties of his office, shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense to be recovered with costs of suit in the name of the state. All such penalties, when collected, shall be paid to the state treasurer, and be subject to the disposition of the legislature.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:10-3 - Administering oaths; examination of witnesses; perjury

12:10-3. Administering oaths; examination of witnesses; perjury
Each port warden may administer oaths, examine witnesses and take affidavits concerning the business of his office. All willful false swearing under such oaths shall be deemed perjury and punished accordingly.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:10-4 - Office; performance of duties

12:10-4. Office; performance of duties
Each port warden shall keep an office in the county in and for which he is appointed, which shall be kept open during business hours, Sundays and holidays excepted.
He shall have the exclusive right to perform all the duties of port warden for the county in and for which he is appointed.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:10-5 - Exclusive jurisdiction over surveys of damaged vessels and cargoes; sale of vessels

12:10-5. Exclusive jurisdiction over surveys of damaged vessels and cargoes; sale of vessels
The port warden shall have exclusive cognizance of all matters relative to the surveys of vessels and their cargoes arriving at any place in his county in distress, or damaged while at such place. He shall be the judge of its fitness to be reshipped to its port of destination or whether it shall be sold for the benefit of whom it may concern. He shall, if called upon to do so, estimate the value or measurement of any vessel when it is in dispute or libeled, and record the same in the books of his office.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:10-6 - Examination of cargo of vessel; liability for damage to cargo

12:10-6. Examination of cargo of vessel; liability for damage to cargo
The port warden, on being notified and requested by any of the parties in interest, shall personally examine the condition and stowage of cargo on board any vessel. If any of the goods are damaged he shall ascertain and make a memorandum of the cause thereof and shall enter the same in full upon the books in his office.
If the hatches of any vessel arriving at any place in this state shall be opened first by any person other than the port warden of the county in which such place is situate, and the cargo unloaded is in damaged condition, such facts shall be presumptive evidence that the damage occurred in consequence of improper stowage or negligence on the part of the persons in charge of the vessel, and the owner, consignee or master shall each and all be primarily liable for the damage.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:10-7 - Examination of wrecked or damaged vessels; assistants; fees

12:10-7. Examination of wrecked or damaged vessels; assistants; fees
The port warden shall be the exclusive surveyor of any vessel which may have suffered wreck or damage or which shall be deemed unfit to proceed to sea. He shall examine the condition of the hull, spars, sails, rigging and all appurtenances thereof, and shall call to his aid carpenters, sailmakers, shipwrights or other persons skilled in their profession who shall not be interested in the matter. All persons so called shall be sworn and each receive a fee of two dollars to be paid by the parties requiring the examination. The warden shall specify what damage has occurred and record in the books of his office a full and particular account of all surveys held on such vessel. He shall be the judge of the repairs necessary to render the vessel again seaworthy, or for the safety of the vessel and the cargo on her intended voyage.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:10-8 - Examination of damaged goods discharged by vessels

12:10-8. Examination of damaged goods discharged by vessels
The port warden, on being requested so to do by any of the parties in interest, shall proceed in person to any warehouse, store or dwelling, or in the public streets or on the wharf, and examine any property said to have been damaged on board of a vessel, and inquire, examine and ascertain the cause of the damage. He shall make a memorandum of the property and the damage thereto and record a full statement thereof in the books of his office.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:10-9 - Certificates of record by warden; as evidence

12:10-9. Certificates of record by warden; as evidence
The port warden, upon request and upon payment of the regular fee, shall furnish a certificate of any record in the books of his office to any parties interested therein. All certificates shall be under the seal of and signed by the warden and shall be evidence in any court of this state of the existence and contents of the record.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:10-10 - Notice of examinations and surveys

12:10-10. Notice of examinations and surveys
In all cases of inquiries, examinations and surveys of vessels and cargoes on board thereof, the port warden shall give notice thereof and of the time and place of completing the same, to all persons interested therein or having charge of the subject matter of the inquiry, examination or survey. Such notice shall be by advertising in at least two daily newspapers in the county where the proceedings may be had, or such other papers the warden may deem necessary. The expense thereof shall be added to and paid with the fee for making the inquiry, examination or survey.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:10-11 - Attendance of warden on sales of condemned vessels and damaged goods; notice and conduct of sales; commissions

12:10-11. Attendance of warden on sales of condemned vessels and damaged goods; notice and conduct of sales; commissions
The port warden shall attend personally all sales of condemned vessels and of damaged materials and goods which are sold at public auction by reason of the damage, for the benefit of the owners or underwriters or for account of whom it may concern.
The auctioneers making such sales shall give due notice thereof to the port warden and shall make such sales under the direction and by order of the warden, for which service he shall receive a commission of one per cent on the gross amount of sales, to be paid by the auctioneer to the warden on demand.
The auctioneers shall make monthly statements to the warden of the county, specifying the total amount of each day's sales made by them under this chapter, which statement shall be filed in the office of the warden.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:10-12 - Certificates of cause of damage and amount of sales

12:10-12. Certificates of cause of damage and amount of sales
The port warden, when required by the owner or consignee of damaged goods sold pursuant to section 12:10-11 of this title, shall certify the cause of the damage, the amount of the sales and the charges on the same, all of which shall be recorded in the books of his office.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:10-13 - Fees of port warden

12:10-13. Fees of port warden
The port warden shall be entitled to the following fees:
a. For each survey held on board of a vessel, on hatches, stowage or cargo or damaged goods, or at any warehouse, store or dwelling, or in the public street or on the wharf, within the limits of the county, on goods said to be damaged, two dollars.
b. For each certificate given in consequence thereof, one dollar.
c. For each survey on the hulls, spars, sails or rigging of any vessel damaged, on arriving at any place in his county in distress, five dollars.
d. For each certificate given in consequence thereof, two dollars and fifty cents.
e. For each valuation or measurement of a vessel, ten dollars.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:10-14 - Violations; misdemeanor; additional penalty

12:10-14. Violations; misdemeanor; additional penalty
No person, except the port warden appointed under this chapter, shall:
a. Assume to act as port warden;
b. Assume to perform or perform under any name or title any service or duty which the port warden may perform or which any person may require the port warden to perform;
c. Undertake the performance of any of the duties prescribed in this chapter or pertaining to the office of port warden, whether or not the port warden has been notified or requested to act; or
d. Have, permit or continue in or about his premises, place of business or office any sign, token or notice that he is a port warden or that he can or will act as a port warden, or give notice or advertise that he is such or will act as such.
No person shall employ, aid or suffer any person other than the legally appointed warden to perform any of such duties.
No person shall issue certificates of surveys of vessels, vessels' materials or goods damaged, with the intent to defeat or defraud the provisions of this chapter.
No person shall sign or issue any certificate, report or other paper purporting to be made or signed by any person not appointed as a port warden under this chapter, in which certificate, report or paper such person not so appointed is designated or described as a port warden, whether of this or any other state.
Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment at hard labor for a term not exceeding one year, or both, and in addition shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each offense to be sued for and recovered by the warden or his successor in office under his proper name and title.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:10-15 - Action to restrain violations

12:10-15. Action to restrain violations
The Superior Court in an action brought for such purpose may restrain any person from performing the duties of port warden or acting as such, or in any way interfering with the duties of the port warden or in any other way violating the provisions of this chapter.
Amended by L.1953, c. 12, p. 104, s. 18, eff. March 19, 1953.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 12 - Commerce and Navigation › Section 12:11A-1 - Legislative findings

12:11A-1 Legislative findings
1. The Legislature hereby finds and declares: a. that overlapping jurisdiction and responsibility for port development is not conducive to the provision of adequate port facilities in southern New Jersey; that the South Jersey Port Corporation hereinafter established by this act, should be the sole agency for the port development which is the purpose of this act; that said corporation should be vested with powers and responsibilities sufficient to fulfill not only its port development purposes but its financial obligations to the government and people of the State of New Jersey; that the Camden Marine Terminals, presently operated and maintained by the South Jersey Port Commission, are ideally suited to serve as the basis from which future port development in South Jersey may proceed; that the acquisition of said Camden Marine Terminals by the South Jersey Port Corporation will enable said corporation to accomplish the purposes of this act; that the indebtedness of the South Jersey Port Commission to its creditors and bondholders and to the city of Camden is properly an obligation of the State of New Jersey and a responsibility of the State of New Jersey to repay to the extent and in the manner provided herein; that prior to the disposition of the Camden Marine Terminals the financial obligations of the South Jersey Port Commission to the city of Camden must be discharged; that the State has already recognized its responsibility and taken steps to fulfill its obligation to the city of Camden by virtue of the appropriation of $1.5 million from the General Treasury of the State of New Jersey to the South Jersey Port Commission, pursuant to chapter 84 of the Laws of 1967, which sum was applied towards the reduction of the indebtedness of the commission to the city of Camden.
b. In order to facilitate the unification of the ports of the Delaware river, as provided in subdivision (m) of the Compact creating the Delaware River Port Authority (R.S.32:3-2), it is in the public interest to provide for the transfer of the port facilities of the corporation to the New Jersey Economic Development Authority so that all or a portion of them may be operated by a subsidiary corporation of the Delaware River Port Authority; that the current outstanding bonded indebtedness of the corporation shall be refunded by the issuance of bonds by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority in order to facilitate that transfer; that provision be made for the employees of the corporation who may be employed by the subsidiary corporation; and that other measures be taken to facilitate the transfer.
L.1968,c.60,s.1; amended 1997, c.150, s.20.