Georgia Code, Title 52, Chapter 6, Article 2 - Pilots Generally

• § 52-6-30 - Qualifications for Pilot's License
  The commissioners at each of the ports of this state are entitled to license during good behavior such citizens of the United States who...
• § 52-6-31 - Number of Pilots
  The number of licensed pilots shall not exceed 21 for the port of Savannah, three for the port of Doboy and Darien, eight for...
• § 52-6-32 - Restrictions As to Persons Who May Receive Fees, Gratuities, or Rewards for Conducting or Piloting Vessels
  No person other than a duly licensed pilot shall be entitled to receive any fee, gratuity, or reward for piloting any vessels underway in...
• § 52-6-33 - Form of License; Oath of Pilot
  The license to a pilot must be in the form of a certificate of appointment, which must be signed by a majority of the...
• § 52-6-34 - Pilots' Bonds -- Generally
  Every pilot licensed as provided for in this chapter shall, before receiving his license, make and deliver to the commissioners a bond, payable to...
• § 52-6-35 - Pilots' Bonds -- Continuation of Existing Bonds; Venue of Actions on Bonds; Parties to Actions
  All bonds given pursuant to prior law and in effect on March 8, 1945, are continued in full force and effect. Actions on bonds...
• § 52-6-36 - Revocation of License for Conducting or Piloting Vessel Arrested Under Court Process
  Any pilot who shall, with knowledge of the arrest of any vessel under process from any court of record, conduct or pilot the vessel...
• § 52-6-37 - Authority of Commissioners to Suspend Pilots, to Revoke Licenses, and to Assess Fines and Penalties; Grounds for Suspension, Revocation, Fines, or Other Penalties
  The commissioners may suspend any pilot or deprive him of his license or assess against him such fines and other penalties as they may...
• § 52-6-38 - Hearings Before Commissioners; Enforcement of Decrees and Orders by Execution or Warrant of Distress
  All matters concerning the assessment of fines or penalties against pilots or other persons, the suspension or revocation of pilot licenses, and any other...
• § 52-6-39 - Issuance of Subpoenas
  When the attendance of any person shall be required as a witness before the commissioners in any matter or claim of which they shall...
• § 52-6-40 - Failure of Witness to Answer Subpoena
  Any witness summoned pursuant to Code Section 52-6-39, whose testimony shall appear to be material and who shall fail to appear, may be attached...
• § 52-6-41 - Taking of Interrogatories and Depositions From Nonresidents and Seamen
  When the person whose attendance is required as a witness is a nonresident of the county where the matter or claim is pending or...
• § 52-6-42 - Appeal to Superior Court -- Generally
  In any case where a pilot is suspended or the pilot's license is revoked or where a fine exceeding $150.00 is imposed by the...
• § 52-6-43 - Appeal to Superior Court -- Use of Interrogatories and Depositions
  In cases of appeal, testimony for use in the superior court may be taken and returned by interrogatories or depositions, under the circumstances and...
• § 52-6-44 - Fees Relating to Hearings Before Commissioners
  The secretary's fees for each subpoena shall be 25 cent(s) and for each attachment 50 cent(s) . For serving any subpoena and for executing...
• § 52-6-45 - Vessels to Be Under Direction and Control of Licensed Pilots; Exemptions; Use of Docking Pilots
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Code section, every vessel shall be under the direction and control of a pilot licensed by this...
• § 52-6-46 - Pilotage Fees -- Fees for Coastwise Vessels
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 1995, p. 846, § 9, effective April 19, 1995.
• § 52-6-47 - Pilotage Fees -- Time of Payment; Security for Payment
  A pilot bringing a vessel into port or a pilot who has tendered his or her services outside the bar to a vessel which...
• § 52-6-48 - Pilotage Fees -- Requests or Demands by Pilots of Fees Different Than Those Fixed by Commissioners
  If any pilot shall ask or demand for his services greater or different fees than those specified in the rates of pilotage fixed by...
• § 52-6-49 - Liabilities and Penalties for Failure to Take Pilot or Pay Pilotage Fees
  (a) Any vessel that fails to take a pilot required under this chapter or that is operated in violation of any other requirement of...
• § 52-6-50 - Fees of Pilots Aiding Vessel in Distress
  Any pilot belonging to any port in this state meeting at sea with any vessel in distress, which is bound to another port within...
• § 52-6-51 - Right of Pilot Boat to One-Third of Inward and Outward Pilotage Fee
  Any pilot boat which places a pilot on board a vessel for the purpose of conducting it into any of the rivers or harbors...
• § 52-6-52 - Liability for Detaining Pilots on Vessels
  The owner, master, consignee, or charterer of any vessel who carries any pilot against his consent to any foreign or other port shall be...
• § 52-6-53 - Compulsory Retirement of Pilots
  Pilots for their respective ports shall be honorably retired at age 65 and no pilot who has been so retired shall thereafter be entitled...
• § 52-6-54 - Acting As Pilot Without License; Interfering With or Disturbing Licensed Pilot
  (a) Any person who pilots or conducts any vessel underway in the waters of any of the bays, rivers, harbors, or ports of this...

Last modified: October 14, 2016