Before an applicant is branched or licensed, the commission shall prepare in writing suitable questions to test his or her knowledge and competency to become a bar pilot. The applicant, without any aid from any other person and without having been informed as to what question would be propounded, shall answer the questions. When the applicant has reduced his or her answers to writing, the applicant shall sign the same and deliver them to one of the commissioners, and the commission shall cause the answers to be copied legibly, but without the name of the applicant. The commission shall then appoint three fair, impartial, and competent nautical persons as a committee to examine the answers of the applicant. 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 the applicants as the commission finds 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 bar 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 the 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 4A - State Pilotage Commission.
Section 33-4A-1 - Applicability.
Section 33-4A-2 - Creation; Composition; Powers and Duties; Quorum.
Section 33-4A-3 - Qualifications of Commissioners.
Section 33-4A-4 - Appointment; Terms; Expenses.
Section 33-4A-5 - Bond of Commissioners.
Section 33-4A-6 - Chair; Acting Chair.
Section 33-4A-8 - Audits; Exemption From Sunset Law.
Section 33-4A-11 - Jurisdiction of Commission - Territorial.
Section 33-4A-12 - Jurisdiction of Commission - Harbor Masters.
Section 33-4A-13 - Rulemaking Authority.
Section 33-4A-14 - Civil Actions to Recover Forfeitures.
Section 33-4A-15 - Recordkeeping.
Section 33-4A-16 - Number of Pilots; Qualifications.
Section 33-4A-17 - Register of Applicants for Apprenticeship; Seniority; Statutory Requirements.
Section 33-4A-18 - Selection of Apprentices.
Section 33-4A-19 - Discharge of Apprentice; Appeal.
Section 33-4A-20 - Branching or Licensing Criteria.
Section 33-4A-21 - Examination and Certification.
Section 33-4A-22 - Passing Examination Entitles Apprentice Pilot to License, Etc.
Section 33-4A-23 - Issuance of License; Possession and Exhibition of License; Oath of Pilot.
Section 33-4A-24 - Levy, Payment, and Disposition of Pilot's License Tax.
Section 33-4A-25 - Bond of Pilot - Required; Amount; Conditions; Renewal.
Section 33-4A-26 - Bond of Pilot - Preserving Bonds, etc.; New Bonds; Actions on Bonds; Liabilty.
Section 33-4A-27 - Suspension or Revocation of License - Notice; Hearing.
Section 33-4A-28 - Suspension or Revocation of License - Witnesses' Fees.
Section 33-4A-29 - Suspension or Revocation of License - Subpoenas.
Section 33-4A-30 - Suspension or Revocation of License - Conduct of Hearings.
Section 33-4A-31 - Grounds for Depriving Pilot of Branch.
Section 33-4A-32 - Penalty for Acting Without License.
Section 33-4A-33 - Pay of Pilots - Generally.
Section 33-4A-34 - Pay of Pilots - Time of Payment.
Section 33-4A-35 - Pay of Pilots - Fees of Pilots Retained on Vessels.
Section 33-4A-36 - Pay of Pilots - No Discrimination or Rebating of Pilot's Fees.
Section 33-4A-37 - Pay of Pilots - Exemptions From Payment of Pilot's Fees.
Section 33-4A-38 - Compulsory Retirement of Bar Pilots.
Section 33-4A-39 - Vessels Required to Take Pilots.
Section 33-4A-40 - Report of Unlawful Discharge of Ballast, Sweepings, Rubbish, etc., in Bay, Etc.