Bill Text: NY A09196 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9196 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to time restrictions on continuous pilotage on vessels transiting the Hudson River.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-01 - substituted by s6396a [A09196 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09196-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9196
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 2, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN  ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to time restrictions on
          continuous pilotage on vessels transiting the Hudson River
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.    Subparagraph  1-a  of paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of
     2  section 89-a of the navigation law, as amended by  chapter  482  of  the
     3  laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1-a) All vessels shall pay an additional launch fee and communication
     5  fee. The launch fee shall be set by the board of commissioners of pilots
     6  to  recoup  the  cost  of  operating a pilot launch and pilot station at
     7  Yonkers. The communication fee shall be set by the board of  commission-
     8  ers  of  pilots  to recoup the cost of portable electronic communication
     9  and navigation equipment carried aboard the vessel by the pilot.
    10    All vessels transiting Section 2, Upper River; Yonkers, to beyond Hyde
    11  Park through Albany or Troy shall pay a mid-river launch fee.  The  mid-
    12  river launch fee shall be set by the board of commissioners of pilots to
    13  recoup  the cost of operating a pilot launch and pilot station at Norrie
    14  Point.
    15    The launch fee, communication fee, and mid-river launch fee  shall  be
    16  reviewed  annually  by  the board of commissioners of pilots on or about
    17  the anniversary date upon which this section shall have become a law.
    18    In the event a vessel transiting the Hudson River requires  a  contin-
    19  uous  pilotage  of  more  than  [eight]  ten  hours, two pilots shall be
    20  assigned at the beginning of such transit, and  the  fee  shall  be  the
    21  regular  pilotage  fee  plus fifty percent for the second pilot. The fee
    22  for the second pilot shall not apply when the first pilot is  discharged
    23  at  the mid-river pilot station and relieved at such station by a second
    24  pilot. A second pilot shall not be required when the vessel anchors  for
    25  a  minimum  of  eight  hours  such  that  the transit does not require a
    26  continuous pilotage of more than [eight] ten hours by one pilot.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    28  manner  as  a  chapter of the laws of 2015, amending the navigation law,
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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