§ 12:8-10 — Pilot boats in Sandy Hook service; apprentices, control and direction of; docking boats.

12:8-10. The pilot boats employed by or belonging in whole or in part to the United New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots' Benevolent Association, or to the United New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots' Association, shall be the only maritime pilot boats in the New Jersey Sandy Hook pilot service, or in any bays, rivers, harbors, or ports of the waters of this State or approaches to the waters of this State between Sandy Hook, in the county of Monmouth and the city of Atlantic City, in the county of Atlantic. Apprentices shall be attached to the pilot boats of said association and the pilot boats may have more than one apprentice. The apprentices shall be entered in the books of the commission in the name of and indentured to the association, and shall serve as apprentices under the laws of this State. The association shall have the sole control of all apprentices, subject to the regulations of the commission, until they have served a term of at least four years and shall see that all apprentices entered in the commission's books are fully instructed in their duties in such manner as is necessary to fully qualify them in every respect to perform the duties of a maritime pilot. Docking pilot boats may be employed by docking pilots for the performance of their duties as needed. Amended 1991, c.76, s.2; 2004, c.72, s.14.