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Article 6 - Pilots and Pilotage Fees, Port of New York
90 - Licensing of Sandy Hook Pilots; Apprenticeship.

§ 90. Licensing  of  Sandy  Hook pilots; apprenticeship. 1. No license
  shall hereafter be granted to any person to act as pilot for the port of
  New York by way of Sandy Hook or by the way of Sands Point or  Execution
  Rocks,  unless  the applicant shall have served an apprenticeship in the
  New York Sandy Hook  pilot  service  in  the  manner  provided  in  this
  section.   Subject  to  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  board  of
  commissioners, the executive committee of the United New York Sandy Hook
  Pilots Benevolent Association  (hereinafter  designated  the  benevolent
  association) shall have sole control over all apprentices and be charged
  with  the responsibility to instruct such apprentices in their duties as
  Sandy Hook pilots. No other apprenticeship  shall  be  accepted  by  the
  commissioners.  Application  for apprenticeship may be made to the board
  of commissioners on a form to be prescribed by such  commissioners.  The
  qualifications   necessary   for   an   applicant   to   enter  into  an
  apprenticeship shall be prescribed by rule or regulation of the board of
  commissioners. The names of all persons accepted as apprentices shall be
  registered in the books of the board of commissioners and  certified  to
  the benevolent association in the order of their acceptance. Apprentices
  shall  serve  at least four years apprenticeship.  Each apprentice shall
  be examined by  the  board  of  commissioners  upon  completion  of  his
  apprenticeship  and  if  found worthy and qualified may be licensed as a
  New York Sandy Hook pilot in the lowest grade then  established  by  the
  commissioners.  In the event a national or other emergency shall make it
  imperative to the safe movement of vessels in and out of the port of New
  York by the way of Sandy Hook or by the way of Sands Point or  Execution
  Rocks, that licenses to pilot such vessels be issued to persons who have
  not  served the apprenticeship herein prescribed, then in that event the
  board of commissioners may issue temporary pilot  licenses,  other  than
  full branch licenses, to qualified persons to serve as Sandy Hook pilots
  so  long  as the emergency continues or until the pilots so licensed can
  be replaced by deputy pilots licenses after completion of the prescribed
  term of apprenticeship.
2. The commissioners, or a majority of them, shall  license  for  such
  terms  as  they  may  think  proper,  as  many  pilots  as they may deem
  necessary to pilot ships to and from the port of New York by the way  of
  Sandy  Hook  or  by  the  way of Sands Point or Execution Rocks and such
  commissioners  may  specify  in  such  licenses  different  degrees   of
  qualifications appropriate to different parts or branches of pilot duty,
  according  to the competency of the applicant. A license shall be denied
  to any person holding  any  license  or  authority  from  or  under  the
  authority of the laws of any other state.