N.Y. Navigation Law § 90: Licensing of Sandy Hook pilots; apprenticeship

§ 90. Licensing of Sandy Hook pilots; apprenticeship. 1. No license

shall hereafter be granted to any person to act as pilot for the port of

New York by way of Sandy Hook or by the way of Sands Point or Execution

Rocks, unless the applicant shall have served an apprenticeship in the

New York Sandy Hook pilot service in the manner provided in this

section. Subject to the rules and regulations of the board of

commissioners, the executive committee of the United New York Sandy Hook

Pilots Benevolent Association (hereinafter designated the benevolent

association) shall have sole control over all apprentices and be charged

with the responsibility to instruct such apprentices in their duties as

Sandy Hook pilots. No other apprenticeship shall be accepted by the

commissioners. Application for apprenticeship may be made to the board

of commissioners on a form to be prescribed by such commissioners. The

qualifications necessary for an applicant to enter into an

apprenticeship shall be prescribed by rule or regulation of the board of

commissioners. The names of all persons accepted as apprentices shall be

registered in the books of the board of commissioners and certified to

the benevolent association in the order of their acceptance. Apprentices

shall serve at least four years apprenticeship. Each apprentice shall

be examined by the board of commissioners upon completion of his

apprenticeship and if found worthy and qualified may be licensed as a

New York Sandy Hook pilot in the lowest grade then established by the

commissioners. In the event a national or other emergency shall make it

imperative to the safe movement of vessels in and out of the port of New

York by the way of Sandy Hook or by the way of Sands Point or Execution

Rocks, that licenses to pilot such vessels be issued to persons who have

not served the apprenticeship herein prescribed, then in that event the

board of commissioners may issue temporary pilot licenses, other than

full branch licenses, to qualified persons to serve as Sandy Hook pilots

so long as the emergency continues or until the pilots so licensed can

be replaced by deputy pilots licenses after completion of the prescribed

term of apprenticeship.

2. The commissioners, or a majority of them, shall license for such

terms as they may think proper, as many pilots as they may deem

necessary to pilot ships to and from the port of New York by the way of

Sandy Hook or by the way of Sands Point or Execution Rocks and such

commissioners may specify in such licenses different degrees of

qualifications appropriate to different parts or branches of pilot duty,

according to the competency of the applicant. A license shall be denied

to any person holding any license or authority from or under the

authority of the laws of any other state.