Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 856 - PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION, OREGON BOARD OF MARITIME PILOTS › Division 10 - GENERAL › Section 856-010-0003 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) "Barge" - A
			 general term for a heavy, flat bottomed, often rectangular vessel used to carry
			 cargo, usually in sheltered and inland waters but also, sometimes at sea;
			 usually pushed or towed by tug. By U.S. Government definition, barges are any
			 non-self propelled vessels other than houseboats and dredges.
(2) "Loaded tanker" - A tanker whose mean
			 draft equals or exceeds 80 percent of its maximum allowable draft, or whose
			 mean draft exceeds 30 feet.
(3)
			 "Ocean-going vessel" - Any ship actively engaged in carrying cargo or
			 passengers for hire in offshore navigation between ports.
(4) "Pilot" - An individual licensed pursuant
			 to ORS Chapter 776 and any individual who had notified the board that the
			 individual is in a pilot trainee status.
(5) "Pilotage" - The act or business of
			 piloting. Also the fee paid for a pilot's services.
(6) "Piloting" - The act of assisting the
			 master of a vessel in navigating the vessel while it is underway on a pilotage
			 ground.
(7) "Licensed physician" -
			 Means an individual who holds a degree of Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of
			 Osteopathy and has a valid license issued by the Oregon Medical Board or the
			 Washington Medical Quality Assurance Commission.
(8) "Ship" - A floating, decked vessel that
			 is self-propelled and regularly carries cargo or passengers for hire or is
			 engaged in military purposes in deep water oceanic navigation. Deep water
			 oceanic navigation is navigation in seas beyond the territorial jurisdiction of
			 the United States.
(9) "Ship turn"
			 - For purposes of OAR 856, Division 15, "ship turn" is defined as meaning
			 turning a ship in the Willamette River from a generally upstream orientation to
			 a generally downstream orientation, or from a generally downstream orientation
			 to a generally upstream orientation, which may be made with or without the aid
			 of a tug or towboat.
(10) "Tank
			 barge" - A barge with double bottoms designed to transport liquids.
(11) "Tanker" - A vessel specially
			 constructed for carriage of bulk liquids including, but not limited to,
			 petroleum and its products, chemicals and liquified natural gas.
(12) "Transit" - For purposes of OAR 856,
			 Division 15 a "transit" is a complete trip over part of the Columbia and
			 Willamette River pilotage ground, with one end of the trip at Astoria and the
			 other end at Portland or Vancouver harbor. A transit also includes any
			 combination of trip segments between ports or anchorages, which together begin
			 at Astoria and end at Portland or Vancouver harbor, or begin at Portland or
			 Vancouver and end at Astoria.
(13)
			 "Trip" - Any instance of travel by a vessel under the direction of a pilot as
			 required by ORS 776.405 between two points on
			 any of the pilotage grounds defined by 776.025(1) through (4).
(14) "Tug"; "towboat"; "towing vessel" - A
			 commercial vessel of small tonnage which is engaged in or intending to engage
			 in the service of pulling, pushing or towing alongside or any combination of
			 pulling, pushing or towing alongside.
(15) "Unlimited state-licensed pilot" - An
			 individual who holds an Oregon license to pilot a vessel without any
			 restriction or limitation.
(16)
			 "Upper harbor in Portland" - That portion of the pilotage ground defined by ORS
			 776.025(2)
			 lying on the Willamette River between the St. Johns Bridge and the Ross Island
			 Bridge.
(17) "Vessel" - Includes
			 every description of water craft, including nondisplacement craft, used or
			 capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, except that, for
			 the purposes of ORS 776.405(1)(a),
			 and the board operations fee authorized by Oregon Laws 2013, Chapter 539, a
			 barge is not a vessel.
(18)
			 "Working pilot" - An unlimited state-licensed pilot who regularly provides
			 piloting services for compensation pursuant to the published tariff.
(19) "Pilot apprentice trainee" - For
			 purposes of OAR 856-015-0025, an individual who
			 does not meet the experience requirements of
			 856-015-0023, and who has been
			 certified by the Board to enter the Apprentice Training Program.
(20) "Pilot trainee" - For purposes of OAR
			 856-015-0025 and
			 856-015-0020, an individual who
			 meets the experience requirements of
			 856-015-0023.
(21) For the purposes of ORS
			 776.600(1)(a),
			 the following definitions apply;
(a) "Vessel
			 Assistance" or "Assisting the vessel," means:
(A) Use of a vessel;
(B) Through mechanical means for:
(i) Pushing the vessel being
			 piloted;
(ii) Pulling the vessel
			 being piloted; or
(iii) Towing
			 alongside the vessel being piloted, when the assist vessel is tethered to the
			 vessel being piloted and helping to guide it; and
(C) With navigational changes, or when
			 maneuvering.