2006 New York Code - Examination Of Applicants.

 
    § 92. Examination   of  applicants.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the
  commissioners, before they shall grant a license to any person  applying
  therefor,   to  call  such  applicant  before  them,  within  one  month
  thereafter, and in the presence of one or more pilots licensed  for  the
  waters regarding which such applicant seeks to be examined, who shall be
  notified  to attend, examine such applicant or cause him to be examined,
  with relation to his qualifications for the office of pilot. In case  of
  the nonattendance of any licensed pilot so notified, the examination may
  be  conducted  in  his  absence.  Each  applicant  shall  be examined in
  particular touching his knowledge of the tides, soundings, bearings  and
  distances  of  the  several  shoals,  rocks, bars and points of land and
  night lights in the navigation for which he applies for a license to act
  as a pilot, and also touching any other matter  relating  thereto  which
  the  commissioners  may deem proper.  If upon the examination the person
  so applying shall be found to be of good moral character  and  temperate
  habits,  and  possessed of sufficient ability, skill and experience, the
  commissioners may grant him a license.