GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1081

HOUSE BILL 1451

 

AN ACT TO CONFORM SUBCHAPTER 1 OF CHAPTER 76A OF THE GENERAL STATUTES AFFECTING THE CAPE FEAR RIVER NAVIGATION AND PILOTAGE COMMISSION WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SUBCHAPTER 2 OF CHAPTER 76A AFFECTING THE MOREHEAD CITY NAVIGATION AND PILOTAGE COMMISSION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The second sentence of G.S. 76A-1 is rewritten to read:

"The Commission shall have the exclusive power to license and regulate a group of river pilots familiar with the waters of the Cape Fear River and Bar to best guide vessels within those waters and to exercise authority over navigation in the Cape Fear and Bar and to and from the sea buoy of the port."

Sec. 2.  The first sentence of G.S. 76A-5(a) is amended by adding immediately after the words "arrangements and station of pilots" the words "and for the control of navigation within the Cape Fear River and from and to the Cape Fear Bar and the sea buoys".

Sec. 3.  G.S. 76A-6 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:

"(3)      Apprentice. A license to engage in a program, approved by the Commission, as apprentice pilot under the terms of G.S. 76A-12."

Sec. 4.  G.S. 76A-24 is amended by adding a new sentence at the end of the paragraph to read:

"The Commission, in carrying out its duties, may incur necessary legal and auditing expenses and expenses for its travel and investigation which in addition to the one hundred dollars ($100.00) per meeting fee and other allowances provided by law shall be paid from the foregoing funds."

Sec. 5.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of July, 1984.