California Harbors and Navigation Code Section 802

CA Harb & Nav Code § 802 (2017)  

On entering or leaving a port, harbor, or river, the master of a vessel, the navigation of which is not in charge of a pilot, licensed for that port, harbor, or river, shall take a pilot if one offers himself. While the pilot is on board the navigation of the vessel devolves on him.

(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)

Last modified: October 25, 2018