North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 76 Navigation

Article 1 - Cape Fear River.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-1 through 76-17.   Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 910, s. 2, effective July 1, 1981
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-18.   Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 23, s. 3
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-19 through 76-24.   Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 910, s. 2

Article 2 - Beaufort Harbor.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-25 through 76-34.   Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 716, s. 4

Article 3 - Bogue Inlet.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-35, 76-36.   Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 716, s. 4

Article 4 - Hatteras and Ocracoke.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-37 through 76-39.   Repealed by Session Laws 1975, c. 716, s. 4

Article 5 - General Provisions.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-40.   Navigable waters; certain practices regulated
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place, deposit, leave or cause to be placed, deposited or left, either...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-41.   Obstructing waters of Currituck Sound
  It shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct navigation in the waters of Currituck Sound and tributaries, and all persons, corporations, companies, or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-42.   Lumbermen to remove obstructions in Albemarle Sound
  If any lumberman shall fail to remove all obstructions placed by him in the waters of Albemarle Sound and its tributaries, as soon as...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-43.   Anchorage in range of lighthouses
  If the master of any vessel shall anchor on the range line of any range of lights established by the United States Lighthouse Board,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-44.   Vessels on inland waterways exempt from pilot laws; proviso as to steam vessels
  All vessels, barges, schooners, or other craft passing through the inland waterway of this State, when bound to a port or ports in this...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-45.   Bond of pilot
  Every person, before he obtains a commission or a branch to be a pilot, shall give bond with two sufficient sureties payable to the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-46.   Pilots to have spyglasses
  Every pilot, within such convenient time as the commissioners may direct, who has control over the waters within which he acts, shall furnish himself...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-47.   Acting as pilot without license
  If any person shall act as a pilot, who is not qualified and licensed in the manner prescribed in this Chapter, he shall be...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-48.   Penalty on pilot neglecting to go to vessel having signal set
  When any pilot shall see any vessel on the coast, having a signal for a pilot, or shall hear a gun of distress fired...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-49.   Pilots may be removed
  Unless otherwise provided in the first Article of this Chapter for the Cape Fear River, whenever any pilot appointed, as authorized in this Chapter,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-50.   Pilots refused, entitled to pay
  If a branch pilot shall go off to any vessel bound in, and offer to pilot her over the bar, the master or commander...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-51.   Pay of pilots when detained by vessel
  Every master of a vessel who shall detain a pilot at the time appointed, so that he cannot proceed to sea, though wind and...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-52.   Rates of pilotage annexed to commission
  The commissioners of navigation for the several ports of this State shall annex to the branch or commission, by them given to each pilot,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-53.   Harbor masters; how appointed
  The several boards of commissioners of navigation may appoint a harbor master for their respective ports. They shall appoint a clerk to keep books,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-54.   Commissioners of navigation may hold another office
  A commissioner of navigation and pilotage shall be deemed a commissioner for a special purpose within the meaning of Sec. 7 of Article XIV...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-55.   Commissioners of navigation to designate place for trash
  The several boards of commissioners established by this Chapter may, subject to such regulations as the United States may make, designate the places whereat,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-56.   Harbor master; how appointed where no board of navigation
  Where no board of navigation exists the governing body of any incorporated town, situated on any navigable watercourse, shall have power to appoint a...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-57.   Rafts to exercise care in passing buoys, etc., penalty
  If any person having charge of any raft passing any buoy, beacon, or day mark, shall not exercise due diligence in keeping clear of...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-58.   Interfering with buoys, beacons, and day marks
  If any person shall moor any kind of vessel, or any raft or any part of a raft, to any buoy, beacon, or day...

Article 6 - Morehead City Navigation and Pilotage Commission.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-59 through 76-73.   Repealed by Session Laws 1981, (Regular Session, 1982), c. 1176, s. 2

Last modified: March 23, 2014