N.Y. Navigation Law § 91-b: Licensing of Long Island-Block Island Sound Pilots

§ 91-b. Licensing of Long Island-Block Island Sound Pilots. 1. 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 transiting the New York state waters of Long Island Sound or

Block Island Sound east of Execution Rocks or Sands Point including any

such vessel entering or departing from any port situated in the New York

state waters of Long Island Sound east of Execution Rocks and Sands

Point and on the continuation of Long Island Sound to a line running

from the foot of City Island Avenue on City Island southerly to Stepping

Stones light, 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.

2. Upon the taking effect of this chapter, all pilots who are then,

and have been for the two years immediately prior thereto, actively

engaged, as a regular occupation, in piloting seagoing vessels through

the waters specified in this chapter shall, upon application, be

licensed as full branch Long Island-Block Island Sound pilots for the

waters covered by this chapter if found by the commissioners to be

qualified in accordance with their regulations in effect on March

seventeenth, nineteen hundred seventy-one, except that any person who is

found to be so qualified who has reached his sixtieth birthday prior to

the effective date of this act shall be eligible to renew his license

until age seventy.