Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 176

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 131, TITLE 23, DELAWARE CODE, RELATING TO PILOTAGE RATES.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:

Section 1. § 131, Title 23, Delaware Code, is amended to read:

§ 131. Pilotage Rates

The rates of pilotage for conducting a vessel from the Capes of the Delaware to a point on the Delaware River no further upriver than the bridge of The Pennsylvania Railroad Company between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Delair, New Jersey, or from a point on the Delaware River no further upriver than the Bridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Delair, New Jersey, to the Capes of the Delaware, shall be in either case, every half foot of water which a vessel shall draw the sum of four dollars and twenty-five cents. Every such vessel bound to the Breakwater for orders shall pay pilotage fees as follows: a sum equal to one-half of the inward rates of pilotage to the Port of Philadelphia, and the same fees when outward-bound from the Breakwater.

Approved December 17, 1963.