California Code of Regulations
Title 7 - Harbors and Navigation
Division 2 - State Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun
Article 4 - Training Programs
Section 214 - Pilot Trainee Training Program
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
(a) In order to be considered for licensing as a pilot, a pilot trainee must successfully complete the training program conducted and supervised by the Pilot Evaluation Committee for the Board. The Board shall issue a certificate of completion to a pilot trainee only when it determines that the trainee has successfully completed the pilot trainee training program. The Board may rely upon, but shall not be bound by the recommendations of its Pilot Evaluation Committee in determining whether a trainee has successfully completed the training program or whether or when the trainee should be licensed as a pilot. The Board is not required to license an individual as a pilot at any time after issuance of the certificate of completion authorized by this subsection. If a license is issued, it shall be issued to the most qualified trainee who has successfully completed the training program. Order of completion of the program is not the determining factor.
(b) The training program prescribed herein shall include the following topics:
(c) The training program for each pilot trainee shall consist of a minimum of one year and a maximum of three years of training. The program may include classroom training and training provided by outside contractors and shall include assignments to ride as an observer on tugs engaged in ship assist work. In addition, the program shall include a minimum of 300 trips while under the direct supervision of a pilot or inland pilot, riding as observer or maneuvering vessels of various sizes and classes on the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun. A minimum of 50 trips shall be with members of the Pilot Evaluation Committee and at least 10 of those trips shall be within the last three months before the committee recommendation that the trainee be issued a certificate of completion. Pilot trainee assignments shall be under the general supervision of the Pilot Evaluation Committee and may be made by the Port Agent, his or her designee, or a member of the Pilot Evaluation Committee.
(d) A stipend, funded by a pilot trainee surcharge to pilotage rates, may be paid to pilot trainees. The amount of the stipend, if any, paid to a pilot trainee shall be determined solely by the Board, provided that trainees at similar phases of the program shall receive an equal stipend, if any stipend is given.
(e) A pilot or inland pilot supervising a pilot trainee shall prepare an evaluation report on the performance of the pilot trainee to the Pilot Evaluation Committee at the times and in the manner prescribed by the Committee.
(f) The Board may dismiss a pilot trainee from the training program at any time during the first year of training without cause. After the first year of training, a pilot trainee may be dismissed from the training program if the Board, after a hearing comparable to that provided to a public employee under Government Code § 11126(a), determines that he or she:
(g) A pilot trainee may, on such conditions and for such period of time as the Board may impose, be suspended from the training program or be placed on probation if the Board determines that such action is warranted because of:
(h) In determining whether a pilot trainee has successfully completed the training program or whether the trainee should be licensed as a pilot, the Board and Pilot Evaluation Committee shall consider whether the trainee has met each of the following:
1. Repealer
and new section filed 5-9-88; operative 6-8-88 (Register 88, No. 20). For prior
Article 5. Licensing history, see Registers 82, No. 2; 78, No. 49 and 76, No.
32.
2. Renumbering of former section
214 to section
217 and renumbering and amendment
of former section
212 to section
214 filed 8-12-93; operative
9-13-93 (Register 93, No. 33).
3. Amendment filed 1-14-97; operative
2-13-97 (Register 97, No. 3).
4. New subsection (f)(8) and amendment
of NOTE filed 4-20-98; operative 5-20-98 (Register 98, No. 17).
5.
Amendment and reorganization of subsections (h)-(h)(10) to subsections
(h)-(h)(3)xiv. filed 4-20-99; operative 5-20-99 (Register 99, No.
17).
6. Amendment of section and NOTE filed 6-3-2003; operative
7-3-2003 (Register 2003, No. 23).
7. Governor Newsom issued
Executive Order N-52-20 (2019 CA EO 52-20), dated April 16, 2020, which
extended the period of the training program for pilot trainees unable to train
on vessels, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Note: Authority cited: Section 1154, Harbors and Navigation Code. Reference: Sections 1101(e), 1114.5, 1171.5, 1175, 1177 and 1178, Harbors and Navigation Code.