South Carolina § 54-15-280 Unauthorized pilotage.

South Carolina Statutes

§ 54-15-280 — Unauthorized pilotage.

South Carolina § 54-15-280

Title 54PORTS AND MARITIME MATTERS

Ch. 15PILOTS AND PILOTAGE

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S.C. Code Ann. § 54-15-280 (2026).

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No person shall be authorized or permitted to conduct and pilot any vessel, except those excepted in Section 54-15-270, over the bar, into, out of, or within the harbor of any port, unless the person shall be a then currently licensed pilot and no branch pilot shall be authorized to pilot any vessel with a deeper draft of water than his branch. Any person prohibited from pilotage who shall presume to pilot vessels in violation of this prohibition, shall be entitled to no fee, gratuity, or reward for so doing, shall pay the regular pilotage to the group of associated licensed pilots in the port and shall be subject to a fine of five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than thirty days. This prohibition shall not prevent any person from assisting any vessel in distress, provided the

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No person shall be authorized or permitted to conduct and pilot any vessel, except those excepted in Section 54-15-270, over the bar, into, out of, or within the harbor of any port, unless the person shall be a then currently licensed pilot and no branch pilot shall be authorized to pilot any vessel with a deeper draft of water than his branch. Any person prohibited from pilotage who shall presume to pilot vessels in violation of this prohibition, shall be entitled to no fee, gratuity, or reward for so doing, shall pay the regular pilotage to the group of associated licensed pilots in the port and shall be subject to a fine of five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than thirty days. This prohibition shall not prevent any person from assisting any vessel in distress, provided the person shall deliver up the vessel to the first licensed pilot who shall offer to board.

Legislative History

HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 56-1428; 1952 Code SECTION 56-1433; 1942 Code SECTION 6704; Civ. C. '22 SECTION 3602; Cr. C. '22 SECTION 234; Civ. C. '12 SECTION 2492; Cr. C. '12 SECTION 398; Civ. C. '02 SECTION 1636; G. S. 1275; R. S. 1376; 1878 (16) 420; 1909 (26) 187; 1958 (50) 1624; 2006 Act No. 237, SECTION 1, eff March 17, 2006. Effect of Amendment The 2006 amendment made nonsubstantive language changes.