§ 97 — Miscellaneous provisions

§ 97. Miscellaneous provisions. 1. All actions and proceedings by the\nboard of commissioners to enforce any liability or to recover any fines,\npenalties or forfeitures given by law to such officers, or to the board\nof commissioners, may be brought and prosecuted by such officers in the\nname of the board. Whenever, by law, any notice is required to be given\nby such officers, or board, a notice signed by the president of the\nboard for the time being, and containing a copy of the provisions under\nor pursuant to which such notice is given, shall be a sufficient\ncompliance with the requirements of the law in respect to the giving of\nsuch notice, provided the commissioners ratify and adopt the same by a\nmajority vote, within twenty days after the giving of such notice. This\nsubdivision shall not apply to any notice required to be given in the\nprogress of any action or special legal proceedings.\n 2. It shall be the duty of the commissioners, out of any funds which\nthey may obtain to provide rewards to encourage the prompt relief of\ndisabled vessels and the speedy report of the same, and generally to\nencourage not only the performance of duty, but efforts to relieve\nvessels and passengers from distress or suffering.\n 3. The master of every vessel boarded by a pilot shall give such pilot\non boarding, an account of the draught of such vessel. If the draught\ngiven is less than the actual draught, the master shall forfeit the sum\nof twenty-five dollars, which may be sued for and recovered in an action\ncommenced in the name of the board of commissioners.\n 4. It shall be the duty of every branch and deputy pilot belonging to\nthe port to use his utmost endeavors to hail and to interrogate the\nmaster of every vessel he shall discover entering the port in reference\nto all matters necessary to enable such pilot to determine whether such\nvessel is subject to quarantine.\n 5. If from the answers obtained from such inquiries it shall appear\nthat such vessel came from a port where any quarantinable disease\nexisted at the time of her departure, or that any case of such disease\nshall have occurred on board during the passage, the pilot shall\nimmediately direct the master of the vessel to proceed to and anchor at\nthe quarantine anchorage. In other cases of vessels liable to\nquarantine, he shall direct the masters thereof to proceed and anchor at\nsuch point as shall be assigned by the federal health officer as an\nanchorage for such vessels.\n 6. The fees for the piloting of vessels over intermediate distances\nwithin the waters subject to pilotage regulations under this article and\nthe amounts to be paid for detention of said pilots shall be established\nby the board of commissioners.\n 7. A pilot who is carried to sea on a vessel by reason of heavy\nweather or any other cause shall receive compensation of two hundred\ndollars a day, his expenses shall be paid, and he shall be provided with\nfirst class return transportation at the earliest possible time. The\ncompensation and costs shall be paid by the vessel, its owner, master,\ncharterer or agent.\n 8. The master, owner, or consignee of any ship, or vessel, to whom any\npilot shall have rendered, upon the master's request any extra service\nfor the preservation of such ship or vessel while in distress shall pay\nsuch pilot, in addition to the pilotage fees provided by this article,\nsuch amount for extra services as the board of commissioners shall\ndetermine to be a reasonable reward.\n 9. Pilotage fees as provided in this article shall be payable by the\nmaster, owner, consignee, or agent entering or clearing the vessel at\nthe port of New York, who shall be jointly and severally liable\ntherefor.\n