§1048. Pilotage fees; exceptions
A. The pilots shall be entitled to ask for and receive a pilotage fee. The pilots' fees shall be established by the Pilotage Fee Commission as described in R.S. 34:1121 et seq.
B. Pilots' charges shall be paid by every vessel subject to pilotage navigating between the ports of New Orleans and Baton Rouge and intermediate ports. When pilot services are timely offered and refused, the vessel shall pay the charges nevertheless.
C. Vessels of one hundred tons or under, lawfully engaged in the coastwide trade of the United States, shall not be required to take a pilot; but the master of the vessel may demand pilot services.
Amended by Acts 1952, No. 312, §1; Acts 1956, No. 146, §1; Acts 1960, No. 67, §1; Acts 1967, No. 6, §1; Acts 2015, No. 18, §1, eff. May 26, 2015.
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