Before an applicant is branched or licensed, the commission must prepare in writing suitable questions to test his knowledge and competency to become such pilot, who, without any aid from any other person and without having been informed as to what question would be propounded to him, shall answer such questions. When the applicant has reduced his answers to writing, he shall sign the same and deliver them to one of the commissioners, and the commission must cause such answers to be copied legibly, but without the name of the applicant. The commission shall then appoint three fair, impartial and competent nautical men as a committee to examine the answers of the applicants. The applicant or applicants may name one of these, the existing pilots name another, and the commission, or a majority of them, shall name the third. The committee shall examine the copies of the answers of applicants and shall endorse upon the answer of such of the applicants as they find sufficient the following certificate: "We hereby certify that the foregoing answers are satisfactory, and that, in our opinion, the applicant making the same is well acquainted with the pilot grounds, knows how to handle both steam and sailing vessels and is competent to perform the duties of a bay or bar pilot." When such certificate is duly signed and delivered to the commission, the applicant shall be deemed qualified to receive a license.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.
Chapter 4 - Pilots and Pilotage.
Section 33-4-30 - Number of Pilots; Application, Examination and Certification Required for License.
Section 33-4-31 - Qualifications; Age Limitations for Apprentices.
Section 33-4-32 - Selection of Apprentices.
Section 33-4-33 - Apprentice Not to Be Discharged Except for Cause; Appeal of Discharge.
Section 33-4-35 - Examination and Certification Generally.
Section 33-4-36 - Apprentice Pilots Not Required to Take Second Examination.
Section 33-4-37 - Issuing Licenses; Possession and Exhibition of Licenses; Oath of Pilot.
Section 33-4-38 - Levy, Payment, and Disposition of Pilot's License Tax.
Section 33-4-39 - Bond of Pilot - Required; Amount; Conditions; Renewal.
Section 33-4-40 - Bond of Pilot - Preserving Bonds, etc.; New Bonds; Actions on Bonds; Liability.
Section 33-4-41 - Revocation or Suspension of License for Cause - Generally.
Section 33-4-43 - Revocation or Suspension of License for Cause - Witnesses' Fees and Mileage.
Section 33-4-45 - Revocation or Suspension of License for Cause - Hearings; Decision of Commission.
Section 33-4-46 - Grounds for Depriving Pilot of Branch.
Section 33-4-47 - Penalty for Acting Without License.
Section 33-4-48 - Pay of Pilots - Generally.
Section 33-4-49 - Pay of Pilots - Time of Payment.
Section 33-4-50 - Pay of Pilots - Fees of Pilots Detained on Vessels.
Section 33-4-51 - Pay of Pilots - No Discrimination or Rebating of Pilot's Fees.
Section 33-4-52 - Pay of Pilots - Exemptions From Payment of Pilot's Fees.
Section 33-4-53 - Compulsory Retirement of Bar Pilots.
Section 33-4-54 - Vessels Required to Take Pilots.
Section 33-4-55 - Pilot Boats Must Offer Services to Vessels Nearest Bar.
Section 33-4-56 - Delivery of Orders and Letters by Pilot.
Section 33-4-57 - Report of Unlawful Discharge of Ballast, Sweepings, Rubbish, etc., in Bay, Etc.