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A08949 Summary:

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A08949 Committee Votes:

Committee:TRANSPORTATION   Chair:Magnarelli      
DATE:01/14/2020AYE/NAY:24/0  Action: Favorable         
Magnarelli
Aye
McDonough
Aye
Perry
Aye
DiPietro
Aye
Lupardo
Aye
Byrne
Aye
Crespo
Excused
Miller
Aye
Thiele
Aye
Norris
Aye
Bronson
Aye
DeStefano
Aye
Steck
Aye
Walczyk
Aye
Simon
Aye
Hunter
Aye
Hyndman
Aye
Williams
Aye
Ryan
Aye
Wright
Aye
Fahy
Aye
Frontus
Aye
Jacobson
Aye
McMahon
Aye
Raynor
Aye
Darling
Aye

A08949 Floor Votes:

A08949 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8949
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     January 6, 2020
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by 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:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  88 of the navigation law, as
     2  amended by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending  the  navigation  law
     3  relating to exempting certain vessels from the compulsory state pilotage
     4  requirement,  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4200-A and A.
     5  6703-A, is amended to read as follows:
     6    1. Every foreign vessel  and  every  American  vessel  under  register
     7  entering or departing from the Port of New York by the way of Sandy Hook
     8  or by the way of Sands Point or Execution Rocks, shall take a Sandy Hook
     9  pilot licensed under the authority of this article or of the laws of the
    10  state  of  New  Jersey  or  a  person heretofore licensed as a Hell Gate
    11  pilot.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision, recreational
    12  vessels as defined in section 2101[(25)] (34) of title 46 of the  United
    13  States Code of less than two hundred feet in length may be exempted from
    14  the compulsory state pilotage requirement at the discretion of the board
    15  of  commissioners  of pilots.  Whenever the services of such a pilot are
    16  refused, the master, owners or consignees, shall pay pilotage as if  one
    17  had been employed. Such pilotage shall be paid to the pilot first speak-
    18  ing  or  offering  his  services  as  pilot to such vessel. The pilotage
    19  authorized to be collected whenever a pilot shall be refused by a vessel
    20  shall be sued for and recovered in the name of the pilot tendering  such
    21  service.  Such  pilotage,  when  recovered,  shall  belong to and may be
    22  retained by such pilot for his own benefit and use. Recreational vessels
    23  as defined in section 2101[(25)] (34) of title 46 of the  United  States
    24  Code  may  be  exempted  from  the compulsory state pilotage requirement
    25  pursuant to this subdivision at the discretion of the board  of  commis-
    26  sioners of pilots.
    27    §  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 89-a of the navigation law, as amended
    28  by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the navigation  law  relating
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09703-04-0
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     1  to exempting certain vessels from the compulsory state pilotage require-
     2  ment, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4200-A and A.  6703-A,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    1.  Every  foreign  vessel  and  every American vessel under register,
     5  except vessels proceeding otherwise than by sea and of less  than  three
     6  hundred  gross  registered tons and having a fully loaded draft of seven
     7  feet or less, entering or departing from the Hudson  river  north  of  a
     8  line  running from the foot of Main street, Yonkers, west to Alpine, New
     9  Jersey, or navigating any of the waters of the  Hudson  river  north  of
    10  said  line  and  south of the dam at Troy, New York, shall take a Hudson
    11  river pilot licensed under the authority of this article.  Notwithstand-
    12  ing the provisions of this subdivision, recreational vessels as  defined
    13  in section 2101[(25)] (34) of title 46 of the United States Code of less
    14  than  two  hundred  feet  in  length may be exempted from the compulsory
    15  state pilotage requirement at the discretion of the board of commission-
    16  ers of pilots.  Whenever the services of such a pilot are  refused,  the
    17  master,  owners  or  consignees  shall  pay  pilotage as if one had been
    18  employed. Such pilotage shall be paid to the  pilot  first  speaking  or
    19  offering  his  services as pilot to such vessel. The pilotage authorized
    20  to be collected whenever a pilot shall be refused by a vessel  shall  be
    21  sued  for and recovered in the name of the pilot tendering such service.
    22  Such pilotage, when recovered, shall belong to and may  be  retained  by
    23  such pilot for his own benefit and use.  Recreational vessels as defined
    24  in  section 2101[(25)] (34) of title 46 of the United States Code may be
    25  exempted from the compulsory state pilotage requirement pursuant to this
    26  subdivision at the discretion of the board of commissioners of pilots.
    27    § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 89-b of the navigation law,  as  amended
    28  by  a  chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the navigation law relating
    29  to exempting certain vessels from the compulsory state pilotage require-
    30  ment, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4200-A and A.  6703-A,
    31  is amended to read as follows:
    32    1. Every foreign vessel and every American vessel under register tran-
    33  siting the New York state waters of Long Island Sound  or  Block  Island
    34  Sound  east  of  Execution  Rocks  or  Sands Point, and any such vessels
    35  entering or departing from any port  situated  on  the  New  York  state
    36  waters  of  Long  Island  Sound  east of Execution Rocks or Sands Point,
    37  shall take a Long Island-Block Island Sound  pilot  licensed  under  the
    38  authority  of  this  article.  Every  foreign  vessel and every American
    39  vessel under register transiting the  New  York  state  waters  of  Long
    40  Island  Sound or Block Island Sound east of a line running southeasterly
    41  from the mouth of the Byram River at the New  York-Connecticut  boundary
    42  to  Oak  Neck Point on Long Island shall take a pilot licensed under the
    43  authority of this article or the laws of any other state having  concur-
    44  rent  jurisdiction over these waters.  Notwithstanding the provisions of
    45  this subdivision, recreational vessels as defined in section  2101[(25)]
    46  (34) of title 46 of the United States Code of less than two hundred feet
    47  in length may be exempted from the compulsory state pilotage requirement
    48  at the discretion of the board of commissioners of pilots.  Whenever the
    49  services  of  such a pilot are refused, the master, owners or consignees
    50  shall pay pilotage as if one had been employed. The pilotage  authorized
    51  to  be  collected whenever a pilot shall be refused by a vessel shall be
    52  sued for and recovered in the name of the pilot tendering such  service.
    53  Such  pilotage,  when  recovered, shall belong to and may be retained by
    54  such pilot for his own benefit and use. Recreational vessels as  defined
    55  in  section 2101[(25)] (34) of title 46 of the United States Code may be
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     1  exempted from the compulsory state pilotage requirement pursuant to this
     2  subdivision at the discretion of the board of commissioners of pilots.
     3    §  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
     4  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019,  amending  the  navigation  law
     5  relating to exempting certain vessels from the compulsory state pilotage
     6  requirement,  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4200-A and A.
     7  6703-A, takes effect.