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46 U.S.C. § 9304

Pilotage pools

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(a) The Secretary may authorize the formation of a pool by a voluntary association of United States registered pilots to provide for efficient dispatching of vessels and rendering of pilotage services.(b) For pilotage pools, the Secretary may—(1) limit the number of the pools;(2) prescribe regulations for their operation and administration;(3) prescribe a uniform system of accounts;(4) perform audits and inspections; and(5) require coordination on a reciprocal basis with similar pool arrangements authorized by the appropriate agency of Canada.(Pub. L. 98–89, Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 559.)

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised section

Source section (U.S. Code)

9304

46:216b(e)

Section 9304 provides for the formation of a pool by a voluntary association of United States registered pilots to provide for efficient pilotage services.

Subsection (a) permits the Secretary to authorize formation of United States pilotage pools.

Subsection (b) sets forth the restrictions and conditions that the Secretary may prescribe for these pools.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2005–2025 · leading case: Menkes v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Menkes v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2011) cadc · cites it 66× “" 46 U.S.C. § 9304 (a). Pursuant to this statutory authority, the Coast Guard has promulgated regulations that provide for the formation of pools in three Great Lakes districts.”
Menkes v. Department of Homeland Security (2007) cadc · cites it 2× “” He pointed out that “[a] pilotage pool is a voluntary association of registered pilots,” (citing 46 U.S.C. § 9304 (emphasis in original)), and that “[t]here is no mandatory requirement in statute or regulation that requires Great Lakes registered pilots to belong to a pool in…”
Menkes v. US Dept. of Homeland SEC. (2005) dcd · cites it 3× “” 46 U.S.C. § 9304 (a) (2000). When the authorized pilotage pool is not providing adequate pilotage service because of physical or economic inability, the Director of Great Lakes Pilotage may order any U.”
Menkes v. Department of Homeland Security (2009) dcd · cites it 2× “46 U.S.C. § 9304 . Under the Coast Guard’s regulations, the Coast Guard can order a non-Association member to provide pilotage services when the Association is not providing pilotage services “because of a physical or economic inability to do so.”
Matthew Hight v. DHS (2025) cadc · cites it 2× “” 46 U.S.C. § 9304 (a). Pilotage associations are also charged, by regulation, with training new pilots.”
Menkes v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2009) dcd “Under the Coast Guard's regulations, the Coast Guard can order a non-Association member to provide pilotage services when the Association is not providing pilotage services "because of a physical or economic inability to do so." 46 C.F.R. § 401.720 (b).”
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