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

52-6-50. 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 this state, shall, if capable and thereunto required, take charge of and pilot such vessel into such port and shall be paid $10.00 a day for every day he may be aboard such vessel at sea, without the bars, and over and above the usual rate of pilotage; and no other pilot shall interfere with him while he is willing to continue his services.

(Laws 1799, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 36; Code 1863, § 1470; Code 1868, § 1527; Code 1873, § 1521; Code 1882, § 1521; Civil Code 1895, § 1669; Civil Code 1910, § 1915; Code 1933, § 80-312; Ga. L. 1945, p. 279, § 11.)