Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
Department 494 - BOARD OF PILOTAGE COMMISSIONERS
Chapter 494-1 - SAINT SIMONS AND SAINT ANDREWS BARS
Subject 494-1-1 - RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF BAR AND HARBOR PILOTAGE
Rule 494-1-1-.02 - Definitions

(1) APPRENTICE means an individual approved and certified by the Commissioners who is undergoing an approved pilot training and qualification program.

(2) BAR means the entrance to any port at such place in the Atlantic Ocean where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is authorized to commence harbor maintenance.

(3) BRANCH means a category of pilot license denoting, the absence of restrictions, or the level of restriction, placed upon the holder of said license.

(4) COAST GUARD means the United States Coast Guard.

(5) COMMISSIONERS means the Board of Pilot Commissioners for St. Simons and St. Andrews Bars.

(6) CONN means to direct the steering of a vessel. For example, the person giving orders to the helmsman (not just relaying orders) is said to "have the conn" or to be "conning the ship."

(7) DIRECTION AND CONTROL means power or authority given to direct a vessel.

(8) DRAFT means the deepest vertical distance required by any vessel to float measured from the surface of the water to a depth equal to the deepest portion of a vessel's hull or appurtenances.

(9) EXAMINER means a member of a Board of Examiners convened by the Commissioners to examine apprentices for issuance of pilot licenses, and to examine pilots holding restricted pilot licenses for the next higher license.

(10) FEDERAL PILOT means any person licensed under the provisions of 46 USC 7101- 7114, and required to serve under the authority of 46 USC 8502, or who may be required to serve under 46 USC 8503.

(11) FOR CAUSE means that a pilot or apprentice is suspended or deprived of his or her license because of negligence, unskillfulness, inattention to duty, intemperance, addiction to the use of drugs, mental derangement, misconduct, or willful violation of these regulations.

(12) FOREIGN FLAG means a vessel registered in a country other than the United States

(13) FULL BRANCH means a license with no restrictions.

(14) GROSS TONS means the gross registered tonnage of any vessel as measured under the 1969 International Tonnage Convention.

(15) GROUNDING means a vessel that is resting or lodged on the bottom.

(16) HARBOR means the waterways inshore of the bar, within a port, on which commerce may be carried.

(17) HAZARDOUS CONDITION means any vessel that does not meet the pilot's general determinations relative to safe vessel movement. The determinations may consider, but not be limited to, vessel draft, state of tide, channel depths, directions of tidal currents, individual vessel maneuvering characteristics, vessel size, presence of other vessels, width of channels, and visibility.

(18) LICENSE means a document issued by the Commissioners to a pilot authorizing that individual to serve as a State pilot on board such vessels requiring same.

(19) PILOT means an individual licensed by the Commissioners as a pilot for the Port of Brunswick, Georgia.

(20) PILOT WATERS means those waters of the bar and within the harbor on which pilots are required.

(21) PORT means the geographic area, defined by political boundaries, surrounding and including the harbor and bar.

(22) PUBLIC VESSEL means a vessel meeting the definition contained in 46 USC 2101(24).

(23) REPORTABLE INCIDENT means any incident or potential incident that affects or could affect safety within the Port.

(24) RESTRICTED PILOT LICENSE means a license issued to a pilot with restrictions as to size, type, or route.

(25) REVOCATION means to deprive a pilot of his or her license to pilot indefinitely.

(26) SEAGOING VESSEL means any vessel that measures 200 or more gross tons.

(27) SHORT BRANCH means a pilot license that is restricted to service on vessels of certain size and draft limitations.

(28) STATE PILOT means a pilot licensed by the Commissioners.

(29) SUSPENSION means to suspend the authority to pilot for a period of time.

(30) VESSEL means, generally, every contrivance of watercraft, including craft self propelled by machinery and/or sail and non-self propelled crafts towed or pushed by another craft.