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2025 Delaware Code
Title 23 - Navigation and Waters
Chapter 1. PILOTS
Subchapter IV. Pilotage Rates
§ 135. Ships detained to discharge pilot; compensation.
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§ 135. Ships detained to discharge pilot; compensation.
When any ship or vessel having a pilot on board is detained by order of the master, owner or consignee of such vessel by quarantine or by ice and conducted by such pilot to a place of safety, the master of any such ship or vessel may discharge the pilot, and in such case the pilot shall be entitled to receive and recover full pilotage, and the compensation for such detention shall be $100 per day for every day the pilot is detained.
16 Del. Laws, c. 449, § 12; 18 Del. Laws, c. 619, § 3; Code 1915, § 965; Code 1935, § 1077; 46 Del. Laws, c. 113, § 2; 23 Del. C. 1953, § 135; 69 Del. Laws, c. 20, § 24; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1;
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