2025 California Code
Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC
DIVISION 5 - PILOTS FOR MONTEREY BAY AND THE BAYS OF SAN FRANCISCO, SAN PABLO, AND SUISUN
CHAPTER 5 - Pilotage Rates
Section 1199.
1199. (a) In addition to other charges for pilotage, there shall be temporary transit fees imposed as is necessary and authorized by this section.
(b) (1) The temporary transit fee for all vessels moved across the bar except for vessels calling at San Francisco Piers 27 and 35 shall be one thousand dollars ($1,000).
(2) On and after January 1, 2024, the temporary transit fee for all vessels moved across the bar shall be eight hundred fifty dollars ($850).
(c) (1) The temporary transit fee for all bay moves and all river moves shall be seven hundred dollars ($700).
(2) On and after January 1, 2024, the temporary transit fee for all bay moves and all river moves shall be eight hundred fifty dollars ($850).
(d) Only one temporary transit fee per invoice may be assessed.
(e) The Legislature finds and declares that the temporary transit fees imposed pursuant to this section are extraordinary, are not to be considered a precedential factor in any future ratesetting, and are established for the sole purpose of addressing the COVID-19 pandemic’s induced supply chain crisis and its related impacts on the pilotage system.
(f) This section shall remain operative only until the board publishes the first pilotage tariff under Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 1250), and as of the following January 1 is repealed.
(Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 769, Sec. 14. (AB 2056) Effective September 29, 2022. Conditionally inoperative as prescribed by its own provisions. Repealed on January 1 following inoperative date.)
