Alaska Administrative Code › Title 12 - Professional Regulations › Part 1 - Boards and Commissions Subject to Centralized Licensing › Chapter 56 - Board of Marine Pilots › Article 4 - Recognition of Pilot Organizations › 12 AAC 56.310 - Qualifications for recognition

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A pilot
				  organization seeking recognition by the board must comply with the minimum
				  qualifications in
				  AS
				  08.62.175 and of this section.
(b) A pilot organization seeking recognition
				  must provide the board with a list of its members, including pilots, deputy
				  pilots, trainees, and apprentices.
(c) The articles, bylaws, or rules of a pilot
				  organization seeking recognition by the board must include provisions that
				  require the organization to
(1) comply with
				  all applicable federal, state, and local laws;
(2) treat both its members and applicants for
				  membership in a uniform, nondiscriminatory, and otherwise lawful
				  manner;
(3) conduct its business
				  activities in a nondiscriminatory and otherwise lawful manner;
(4) cooperate and assist the board by
(A) maintaining a system that enables the
				  organization to obtain necessary information from members on a timely basis and
				  to respond to directives issued by government agencies having jurisdiction over
				  pilotage;
(B) maintaining a process
				  for responding to inquiries and requests of the board or its marine pilot
				  coordinator;
(C) cooperating, and
				  requiring its members to cooperate, with investigations and audits by or on
				  behalf of the board;
(D)
				  acknowledging the authority of the board, for cause and after notice and
				  hearing, to suspend or revoke the recognition of the organization;
(E) bringing to the attention of the
				  department any credible information regarding a member of the organization that
				  may require the board to act under
				  AS
				  08.62.150-08.62.155;
(F) maintaining a relationship with other
				  pilot organizations that furthers the purposes of AS 08.62 (the Alaska Marine
				  Pilotage Act); and
(G) identifying
				  an agent of the organization for the service of process in the state;
(5) maintain in-house procedures
				  for the handling of disciplinary actions and grievances within the
				  organization; the procedures must, at a minimum, provide a member with the
				  right to due process and a fair hearing;
(6) adopt and revise rates for pilotage
				  services in accordance with
				  AS
				  08.62.046 and this chapter;
(7) ensure fair and equal access to the
				  experience necessary to obtain or upgrade a pilot's license under AS 08.62 and
				  this chapter;
(8) maintain fair
				  procedures for the conduct of its internal organizational business;
(9) maintain an efficient, equitable, and
				  nondiscriminatory dispatch system at all times that enables the organization to
				  provide prompt dispatch of pilots to the entire region, given the size of the
				  membership of the organization, and retain the records of those dispatches for
				  audit by the board; and
(10) comply
				  with a written request from the master or owner of a vessel, or that person's
				  representative, showing cause to not dispatch a particular member to pilot a
				  particular vessel and maintain in-house procedures to provide a member with the
				  right to due process and a fair hearing to contest that action.