S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6703--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Transportation  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 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 PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION, RECREATIONAL
 VESSELS AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2101(25) OF TITLE 46 OF THE UNITED  STATES
 CODE  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 speak-
 ing  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. RECREATIONAL VESSELS
 AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2101(25) OF TITLE 46 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE MAY
 BE EXEMPTED FROM THE COMPULSORY STATE PILOTAGE REQUIREMENT  PURSUANT  TO
 THIS  SUBDIVISION  AT  THE  DISCRETION  OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF
 PILOTS.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD09703-02-9

 A. 6703--A                          2
 
   § 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
 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 PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION, RECREATIONAL VESSELS AS  DEFINED
 IN  SECTION  2101(25) OF TITLE 46 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE 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 recovered, shall belong to and may be  retained  by  such
 pilot  for  his own benefit and use.  RECREATIONAL VESSELS AS DEFINED IN
 SECTION 2101(25) OF TITLE 46 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE MAY  BE  EXEMPTED
 FROM THE COMPULSORY STATE PILOTAGE REQUIREMENT PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVI-
 SION 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 PROVISIONS OF
 THIS SUBDIVISION, RECREATIONAL VESSELS AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2101(25) OF
 TITLE 46 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE 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. RECREATIONAL VESSELS AS DEFINED
 IN SECTION 2101(25) OF TITLE  46  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  CODE  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.