Alaska Administrative Code › Title 12 - Professional Regulations › Part 1 - Boards and Commissions Subject to Centralized Licensing › Chapter 56 - Board of Marine Pilots › Article 7 - General Provisions › 12 AAC 56.990 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Unless the context indicates otherwise,
				  in this chapter
(1) "agent" means a person
				  listed on the register of vessel agents kept under
				  AS
				  08.62.040(a)(3) that acts on
				  behalf of the master, owner, or operator of a vessel with actual or apparent
				  authority to secure pilotage services for the vessel, or to provide
				  navigational and safety information to the operator of a pleasure craft that is
				  seeking or has received an exemption from pilotage requirements under
				  AS
				  08.62.180(b) - (e) and
				  12 AAC 56.115; in this paragraph,
				  "person" has the meaning given in
				  AS
				  01.10.060;
(2) "anchoring" means the evolution of
				  maneuvers made to approach and anchor a vessel in an anchorage, beginning with
				  the briefing of the maneuver to the training pilot and ending when the anchor
				  is set and the scope of chain deployed;
(3) "applicant" means an individual who has
				  applied to the department for a licensing action under AS 08.62 or this
				  chapter;
(4) "apprentice" means an
				  individual accepted into a marine pilot apprenticeship program approved by the
				  board, under
				  AS
				  08.62.093(b)(6) and
				  12 AAC 56.033;
(5) "area" means any port, restricted
				  passage, cruise area, or pilotage waters of the inland or coastal waters of or
				  adjacent to Alaska for which a pilot's license is required and a pilotage rate
				  is established under AS 08.62 and this chapter;
(6) "at the conn" means to conduct or direct
				  the maneuvering of a ship;
(7)
				  "candidate" means an individual in any stage of the deputy marine pilot
				  training or apprenticeship program who has not yet made application to the
				  board for licensure;
(8)
				  "compulsory pilotage waters" means those inland or coastal waters of or
				  adjacent to Alaska defined in
				  12 AAC 56.090 and
				  12 AAC 56.100 where Alaska
				  pilotage is required;
(9) "day" as
				  used in the definition of year, means the same as "day" in
				  46 C.F.R.
				  10.103;
(10) "docking" means the evolution of
				  maneuvers made to approach and secure a vessel at a berth, beginning with the
				  briefing of the maneuver to the training pilot and ending when the last line is
				  secured at the berth and
(A) in the
				  Southeastern Alaska Region, includes the approach from the navigation channel,
				  anchorage, or mooring;
(B) in the
				  Southwestern Alaska and Western Alaska Regions, includes the transit from the
				  pilot station to the dock;
(11) "dredging an anchor" means to deploy and
				  utilize an anchor while maneuvering a vessel to moor, anchor, or make secure at
				  a berth;
(12) "fishing vessels"
				  means vessels primarily engaged in the harvesting of fish, shellfish, marine
				  mammals, pearls, shells, or marine vegetation for commercial
				  purposes;
(13) "ice conditions"
				  means ice exists in sufficient quantities to affect the maneuvering or
				  navigation of the vessel;
(14)
				  "incompetent" means the exercise of pilotage duties in a manner which endangers
				  life or property or failure to exercise the requisite knowledge and skill
				  required of a pilot;
(15) "laying
				  to" means the temporary interruption of a vessel's transit for some special
				  purpose that stops but does not anchor or moor the vessel;
(16) "maneuver" means to conn a vessel using
				  one or any combination of propulsion and directional guidance, including the
				  helm, engines, thrusters, tugs, other vessels, or anchors;
(17) "misconduct" means to knowingly violate
				  a provision of AS 08.62, or regulations adopted under authority of AS 08.62, by
				  a person during the course of that person's employment;
(18) "mooring" means the evolution of
				  maneuvers made to approach and secure a vessel to a mooring buoy or buoys,
				  beginning with the briefing of the maneuver to the training pilot and ending
				  when the last line is secured;
(19)
				  "movement" means a docking or undocking, mooring or unmooring, a transit to or
				  from a pilot station, coming alongside an anchored vessel, or anchoring a
				  vessel;
(20) "night" means the
				  period of time between the end of civil twilight when the sun is six degrees
				  below the horizon after sunset and the start of civil twilight when the sun is
				  six degrees below the horizon before sunrise;
(21) "on duty" means being at the conn or
				  assisting the master or navigational officer;
(22) "round trip" is a vessel's passage
				  through a body of water from the entrance or end of navigation to the other
				  entrance or end of navigation and return;
(23) "service" as used in
				  AS
				  08.62.093(b) and
				  12 AAC 56.012, means the time
				  spend on duty on a vessel that is underway;
(24) "standing by" means the time during
				  which a pilot is dispatched to a vessel and is waiting to go on duty to perform
				  pilotage service; "standing by" includes time onboard the vessel, or on shore
				  if the vessel's owner, master, or agent has scheduled a pilot to be available
				  for pilotage duty;
(25) "state
				  licensed marine pilot" or "state marine pilot" means an individual who holds an
				  Alaska license issued under AS 08.62 and this chapter;
(26) "territorial seas" has the meaning given
				  that term in  33 C.F.R. 2.05 - 5(a)  (revised as of December 15, 1995);
(27) "trainee" means an individual who has
				  met the requirements of
				  AS
				  08.62.093(a)(1) and
				  (b)(1)-(5), holds the applicable federal
				  pilotage endorsement, passed the deputy marine pilot core examination described
				  in 12 AAC 56.070(e),
				  and has been accepted by a pilot organization into its training program for the
				  purpose of obtaining supervised vessel movements required for
				  licensure;
(28) "transit" is a
				  vessel's passage through a body of water, from one entrance or end of
				  navigation to the other entrance or end of safe navigation;
(29) "underway" means that a vessel is not a
				  anchor, moored, or made fast to the shore or aground;
(30) "undocking" means the evolution of
				  maneuvers made to depart a berth, beginning with the briefing of the maneuver
				  to the training pilot and ending when the vessel is clear to navigate; the
				  Southwestern Alaska and Western Alaska Regions, "undocking" includes the
				  transit from the dock to the pilot station;
(31) "unmooring" means the evolution of
				  maneuvers made to depart a mooring, beginning with the briefing of the maneuver
				  to the training pilot and ending when the vessel is clear to
				  navigate;
(32) "very large crude
				  carrier" or "VLCC" is any tank vessel of 60,000 gross tons or
				  greater;
(33) "weighing anchor"
				  means the evolution of maneuvers made to depart an anchorage, beginning with
				  the briefing of the maneuver to the training pilot and ending when the vessel
				  is clear to navigate;
(34) "year"
				  as used regarding years of service under
				  AS
				  08.62.093(b)(1)-(4) has the
				  meaning given in 46 C.F.R.
				  10.107;
(35) "for cause" means due to incompetence or
				  misconduct;
(36) "active port"
				  means a port at which commerce is conducted;
(37) "board approved simulator" means a Class
				  A full-mission bridge simulator;
(38) "bridge simulator course" means a course
				  approved by the board and conducted using a board approved simulator;
(39) "the state's coastline" means the line
				  of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast which is in direct
				  contact with the open sea and the line marking the seaward limit of inland
				  waters.