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2018 Georgia Code 52-6-31 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 52 WATERS OF THE STATE, PORTS, AND WATERCRAFT

Section 6. Pilots and Pilotage, 52-6-1 through 52-6-54.

ARTICLE 2 PILOTS GENERALLY

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 the port of Brunswick, two for the Great Satilla River, and two for the port of St. Marys.

(Ga. L. 1886, p. 38, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 1653; Ga. L. 1896, p. 85, § 1; Ga. L. 1901, p. 30, § 1; Civil Code 1910, § 1899; Ga. L. 1921, p. 103, § 1; Code 1933, § 80-104; Ga. L. 1945, p. 279, § 4; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1355, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 846, § 3; Ga. L. 1997, p. 143, § 52; Ga. L. 2007, p. 105, § 1/HB 132.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Actions by licensed pilots prohibited.

- Each licensed pilot has a right to hold the pilot's license and receive the pilot's fees for services which the pilot may render; but the pilot has no right, either alone or with others, to claim the entire business of the port, and to prevent issuing of a license to another pilot, in the discretion of the commissioners. Wright v. Commissioners of Pilotage, 69 Ga. 247 (1882).

Contract limiting number of pilots at port illegal and void.

- Contract between commissioners of a port and licensed pilots thereof, whereby the former agreed to limit the number of pilots for that port for a period of three years to ten, that being the number already licensed, was illegal and void. It is the duty of commissioners to supply the port with a sufficient number of pilots, and the commissioner's cannot contract to restrict the number, without regard to what might be necessary for the business of the port. Wright v. Commissioners of Pilotage, 69 Ga. 247 (1882).

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