O.C.G.A. § 52-6-54 (2019)
Acting as pilot without license; interfering with or disturbing licensed pilot
(a) Any person who pilots or conducts any vessel underway in the waters of any of the bays, rivers, harbors, or ports of this state or the approaches thereto and who has no authority or license to act as a pilot or has had such authority or license suspended or revoked shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) Any person who interferes with or disturbs a licensed pilot in the performance of his duty shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Code section, any person may assist a vessel in distress which has no pilot on board if such person delivers up the vessel to the first licensed pilot who comes on board and offers to conduct it.
History
Ga. L. 1886, p. 38, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 1653; Penal Code 1895, §§ 647, 648; Ga. L. 1896, p. 85, § 1; Ga. L. 1901, p. 30, § 1; Civil Code 1910, § 1899;
Penal Code 1910, §§ 687, 688; Ga. L. 1921, p. 103, § 1; Code 1933, § 80-9901; Ga. L. 1945, p. 279, § 4; Ga. L. 1995, p. 846, § 12.
CHAPTER 7 REGISTRATION, OPERATION, AND SALE OF WATERCRAFT Sec.
Article 1 General Provisions Sec.
Short title. Declaration of policy. Definitions. Requirement as to numbering of vessels; titling; requirements for hull damaged vessels. Numbering of vessels; requirements; fees. Exemptions from numbering requirements. Dealers’ vessels. Hull identification numbers required; penalty for violations. Display of hull identification numbers on new vessels. Seizure of vessels without hull identification numbers; seizure of related property; inspections. Property not subject to replevin; report by law enforcement agency of seizure of property; procedures [Repealed]. Counterfeit hull identification numbers; penalty. Exception to requirement for hull identification numbers. Classification of vessels; required equipment. Discharge of sewage from vessels on lakes; use of vessels with marine toilets on protected fresh waters; certificate and recordation requirements. Restrictions on operation of personal watercraft. Operation of watercraft; identification; operation by minors. Definitions; anchorage restriction areas; permit requirement for long-term anchoring in estuarine areas; short-term anchoring; safe harbor; exceptions.
Boat liveries. Exhausts to be muffled; exemptions; noise level testing.
Annotations
Cross references. - Operation of boats on certain state park lakes, § 12-3-10.
Liability of owner of watercraft for injury or damage caused by operation of watercraft, §§ 51-1-21, 51-1-22.
Law reviews. - For article, "Motorboat Collisions and the Family Purpose Doctrine," see 2 Ga. St. B.J. 473 (1966).
For note discussing the family purpose car doctrine as an extension of the principle of respondeat superior, see 3 Ga. St. B.J. 112 (1966).
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Regulation of seaplanes. - Federal Energy Regulatory Commission did not have an implied power to authorize a power company to regulate seaplane operation on Lake Sinclair. Georgia Power Co. v. Baker, 591 F. Supp. 1569 (M.D. Ga. 1984), rev'd on other grounds, 830 F.2d 163 (11th Cir. 1987) (power company may regulate seaplanes under state water rights law).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR. - Liability for marine collision as affected by failure to provide or use radar on vessel, 82 A.L.R.2d 764.
Applicability of seaworthiness doctrine to those other than crew members, longshoremen, and stevedores, 84 A.L.R.2d 620.
Liability for injury or death of nonparticipant caused by water skiing, 67 A.L.R.3d 1218.
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ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Cross references. - Requirements pertaining to providing of marine toilets or other disposal units on boats operated on waters of state, § 12-5-23.
Law reviews. - For note on 1995 amendments of Code sections in this article, see 12 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 372 (1995).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR. - Liability in admiralty for collision between vessel and drawbridge structure, 134 A.L.R. Fed 537.