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                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 12, 2018
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 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cusick) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in  relation  to  exempting  certain
   vessels from the compulsory state pilotage requirement
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  88  of  the  navigation  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  943  of  the  laws  of 1971, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. Every foreign vessel  and  every  American  vessel  under  register
 entering or departing from the Port of New York by the way of Sandy Hook
 or by the way of Sands Point or Execution Rocks, shall take a Sandy Hook
 pilot licensed under the authority of this article or of the laws of the
 state  of  New  Jersey  or  a  person heretofore licensed as a Hell Gate
 pilot.  NOTWITHSTANDING THE ABOVE, CERTAIN RECREATIONAL VESSELS OF  LESS
 THAN  TWO  HUNDRED  FEET  IN  LENGTH MAY BE EXEMPTED FROM THE COMPULSORY
 STATE PILOTAGE REQUIREMENT AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSION-
 ERS OF PILOTS. Whenever the services of such a pilot  are  refused,  the
 master,  owners  or  consignees,  shall  pay pilotage as if one had been
 employed. Such pilotage shall be paid to the  pilot  first  speaking  or
 offering  his  services as pilot to such vessel. The pilotage authorized
 to be collected whenever a pilot shall be refused by a vessel  shall  be
 sued  for and recovered in the name of the pilot tendering such service.
 Such pilotage, when recovered, shall belong to and may  be  retained  by
 such pilot for his own benefit and use. CERTAIN RECREATIONAL VESSELS MAY
 BE  EXEMPTED  FROM THE COMPULSORY STATE PILOTAGE REQUIREMENT PURSUANT TO
 THIS SUBDIVISION AT THE DISCRETION OF  THE  BOARD  OF  COMMISSIONERS  OF
 PILOTS.
   §  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 89-a of the navigation law, as amended
 by chapter 838 of the laws of 1960, is amended to read as follows:
   1. Every foreign vessel and  every  American  vessel  under  register,
 except  vessels  proceeding otherwise than by sea and of less than three
 hundred gross registered tons and having a fully loaded draft  of  seven
 feet  or  less,  entering  or departing from the Hudson river north of a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 line running from the foot of Main street, Yonkers, west to Alpine,  New
 Jersey,  or  navigating  any  of the waters of the Hudson river north of
 said line and south of the dam at Troy, New York, shall  take  a  Hudson
 river pilot licensed under the authority of this article.  NOTWITHSTAND-
 ING  THE  ABOVE,  CERTAIN  RECREATIONAL VESSELS OF LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED
 FEET IN LENGTH MAY  BE  EXEMPTED  FROM  THE  COMPULSORY  STATE  PILOTAGE
 REQUIREMENT  AT  THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PILOTS.
 Whenever the services of such a pilot are refused, the master, owners or
 consignees shall pay pilotage as if one had been employed. Such pilotage
 shall be paid to the pilot first speaking or offering  his  services  as
 pilot to such vessel. The pilotage authorized to be collected whenever a
 pilot  shall  be  refused by a vessel shall be sued for and recovered in
 the name of the pilot tendering such service. Such pilotage, when recov-
 ered, shall belong to and may be retained by  such  pilot  for  his  own
 benefit  and  use. CERTAIN RECREATIONAL VESSELS MAY BE EXEMPTED FROM THE
 COMPULSORY STATE PILOTAGE REQUIREMENT PURSUANT TO  THIS  SUBDIVISION  AT
 THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PILOTS.
   §  3.  Subdivision 1 of section 89-b of the navigation law, as amended
 by chapter 732 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows:
   1. Every foreign vessel and every American vessel under register tran-
 siting the New York state waters of Long Island Sound  or  Block  Island
 Sound  east  of  Execution  Rocks  or  Sands Point, and any such vessels
 entering or departing from any port  situated  on  the  New  York  state
 waters  of  Long  Island  Sound  east of Execution Rocks or Sands Point,
 shall take a Long Island-Block Island Sound  pilot  licensed  under  the
 authority  of  this  article.  Every  foreign  vessel and every American
 vessel under register transiting the  New  York  state  waters  of  Long
 Island  Sound or Block Island Sound east of a line running southeasterly
 from the mouth of the Byram River at the New  York-Connecticut  boundary
 to  Oak  Neck Point on Long Island shall take a pilot licensed under the
 authority of this article or the laws of any other state having  concur-
 rent jurisdiction over these waters.  NOTWITHSTANDING THE ABOVE, CERTAIN
 RECREATIONAL  VESSELS  OF  LESS  THAN  TWO HUNDRED FEET IN LENGTH MAY BE
 EXEMPTED  FROM  THE  COMPULSORY  STATE  PILOTAGE  REQUIREMENT   AT   THE
 DISCRETION  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  COMMISSIONERS  OF  PILOTS.  Whenever the
 services of such a pilot are refused, the master, owners  or  consignees
 shall  pay pilotage as if one had been employed. The pilotage authorized
 to be collected whenever a pilot shall be refused by a vessel  shall  be
 sued  for and recovered in the name of the pilot tendering such service.
 Such pilotage, when recovered, shall belong to and may  be  retained  by
 such pilot for his own benefit and use. CERTAIN RECREATIONAL VESSELS MAY
 BE  EXEMPTED  FROM THE COMPULSORY STATE PILOTAGE REQUIREMENT PURSUANT TO
 THIS SUBDIVISION AT THE DISCRETION OF  THE  BOARD  OF  COMMISSIONERS  OF
 PILOTS.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.