TITLE 52 WATERS OF THE STATE, PORTS, AND WATERCRAFT

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

ARTICLE 1 BOARD OF PILOTAGE COMMISSIONERS

52-6-8. Keeping of records by board; designation of chairperson of board; keeping list of pilots whose licenses have been revoked; access of public to records.

The commissioners shall preserve in a neatly bound book a record of all their acts and of all the rules and regulations adopted by them for the direction and government of pilots. The commissioners shall designate one of their number as chairperson and cause a record thereof to be made. The commissioners shall also preserve upon their records a list of the names of all persons appointed pilots by them, as well as a list of the names of those whose licenses have been suspended or revoked or who have been retired. All persons interested shall have access to and be permitted to have duplicates of such records.

(Orig. Code 1863, §§ 1473, 1474; Code 1868, §§ 1530, 1531; Code 1873, §§ 1524, 1525; Code 1882, §§ 1524, 1525; Civil Code 1895, §§ 1672, 1673; Civil Code 1910, §§ 1918, 1919; Code 1933, §§ 80-112, 80-113; Ga. L. 1945, p. 279, §§ 22, 23; Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 96/HB 24.)

The 2011 amendment, effective January 1, 2013, substituted "The commissioners" for "They" twice; substituted "chairperson" for "chairman" in the middle of the second sentence; and substituted "duplicates of such records" for "copies of the records; and copies thereof certified by the chairman or secretary shall be presumptive evidence of the facts therein stated" at the end of the last sentence. See editor's note for applicability.