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Section 33-4A-1 - Applicability. - This chapter shall only apply to Class 2 municipalities.
Section 33-4A-2 - Creation; Composition; Powers and Duties; Quorum. - (a) There shall be a board of pilotage commissioners in...
Section 33-4A-3 - Qualifications of Commissioners. - All of the members of the commission, at the time...
Section 33-4A-4 - Appointment; Terms; Expenses. - The initial appointees to the commission shall be the members...
Section 33-4A-5 - Bond of Commissioners. - Before entering upon the duties of their office, the commissioners...
Section 33-4A-6 - Chair; Acting Chair. - The commissioners shall elect a chair to preside at its...
Section 33-4A-7 - Secretary. - The commission may employ a secretary who shall not be...
Section 33-4A-8 - Audits; Exemption From Sunset Law. - (a) The commission shall have a financial and compliance audit...
Section 33-4A-9 - Meetings. - The commissioners shall meet at least once every three months...
Section 33-4A-10 - Vacancies. - If a vacancy occurs from any cause in the office...
Section 33-4A-11 - Jurisdiction of Commission - Territorial. - The jurisdiction of the commission under this chapter shall extend...
Section 33-4A-12 - Jurisdiction of Commission - Harbor Masters. - The commission shall not have jurisdiction over harbor masters or...
Section 33-4A-13 - Rulemaking Authority. - The commission shall have the power and authority to make...
Section 33-4A-14 - Civil Actions to Recover Forfeitures. - The commissioners, in their own names as commissioners or in...
Section 33-4A-15 - Recordkeeping. - The commissioners shall preserve a record of their acts and...
Section 33-4A-16 - Number of Pilots; Qualifications. - (a) At no time shall there exist more apprentices or...
Section 33-4A-17 - Register of Applicants for Apprenticeship; Seniority; Statutory Requirements. - (a) In order to prevent delays in the apprenticeship and...
Section 33-4A-18 - Selection of Apprentices. - All apprentices, before becoming eligible for service as apprentices, shall...
Section 33-4A-19 - Discharge of Apprentice; Appeal. - A Mobile Bay or bar pilot apprentice may not be...
Section 33-4A-20 - Branching or Licensing Criteria. - To be eligible to be branched or licensed as the...
Section 33-4A-21 - Examination and Certification. - Before an applicant is branched or licensed, the commission shall...
Section 33-4A-22 - Passing Examination Entitles Apprentice Pilot to License, Etc. - An apprentice pilot who has successfully passed an examination for...
Section 33-4A-23 - Issuance of License; Possession and Exhibition of License; Oath of Pilot. - The commission shall issue to each bar pilot licensed and...
Section 33-4A-24 - Levy, Payment, and Disposition of Pilot's License Tax. - There is levied upon each licensed bar pilot engaged in...
Section 33-4A-25 - Bond of Pilot - Required; Amount; Conditions; Renewal. - Before receiving his or her branch, the bar pilot must...
Section 33-4A-26 - Bond of Pilot - Preserving Bonds, etc.; New Bonds; Actions on Bonds; Liabilty. - (a) The commissioners shall preserve on file all bonds and...
Section 33-4A-27 - Suspension or Revocation of License - Notice; Hearing. - For any violation by any bar pilot of any of...
Section 33-4A-28 - Suspension or Revocation of License - Witnesses' Fees. - Witnesses may be paid a reasonable fee, as determined by...
Section 33-4A-29 - Suspension or Revocation of License - Subpoenas. - The bar pilot against whom the charges have been filed,...
Section 33-4A-30 - Suspension or Revocation of License - Conduct of Hearings. - The hearing shall be conducted under the rules as the...
Section 33-4A-31 - Grounds for Depriving Pilot of Branch. - The commission may deprive any pilot of his or her...
Section 33-4A-32 - Penalty for Acting Without License. - Any person who pilots a foreign vessel, or an American...
Section 33-4A-33 - Pay of Pilots - Generally. - (a) The master, owner, agent, or operator of any ship...
Section 33-4A-34 - Pay of Pilots - Time of Payment. - A bar pilot who has brought a vessel into port...
Section 33-4A-35 - Pay of Pilots - Fees of Pilots Retained on Vessels. - If the master of any vessel retains a bar pilot...
Section 33-4A-36 - Pay of Pilots - No Discrimination or Rebating of Pilot's Fees. - There shall be no discrimination among vessels subject to the...
Section 33-4A-37 - Pay of Pilots - Exemptions From Payment of Pilot's Fees. - All vessels, whether sail, steam, or propelled by any other...
Section 33-4A-38 - Compulsory Retirement of Bar Pilots. - Every bar pilot licensed and branched by the commission upon...
Section 33-4A-39 - Vessels Required to Take Pilots. - All steam or motor vessels crossing the outer bar of...
Section 33-4A-40 - Report of Unlawful Discharge of Ballast, Sweepings, Rubbish, etc., in Bay, Etc. - Every bar pilot, having knowledge of the discharge of ballast,...