The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXII
PORTS AND HARBORS

Chapter 310
PILOTS, PILOTING, AND PILOTAGE

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F.S. 310.002

310.002 Definitions.—As used in this chapter, except where the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) “Vessel” includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.

(2) “Pilot” means a licensed state pilot or a certificated deputy pilot.

(3) “Board” means the Board of Pilot Commissioners.

(4) “Port” means any place in the state into which vessels enter or depart and includes, without limitation, Fernandina, Nassau Inlet, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Canaveral, Ft. Pierce, Palm Beach, Port Everglades, Miami, Key West, Boca Grande, Charlotte Harbor, Punta Gorda, Tampa, Port Tampa, Port Manatee, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Apalachicola, Carrabelle, Panama City, Port St. Joe, and Pensacola.

(5) “Pilotage waters of the state” means the navigable waters within the boundaries of the state.

(6) “Piloting” means the acts of pilots in conducting vessels through the pilotage waters of the state.

(7) “Pilotage” means the compensation fixed by the Pilotage Rate Review Committee which is payable by a vessel, its owners, agents, charterers, or consignees to one or more pilots in the port where piloting is performed. The word “pilotage” also means the compensation of all types and sources derived by one or more pilots or deputy pilots for the performance of piloting at that port by licensed pilots or by certificated deputy pilots, whether such piloting is performed pursuant to this chapter or is performed by state-licensed pilots or state-certificated deputy pilots when acting as a federal pilot for vessels not required by this chapter to use a state-licensed pilot or state-certificated deputy pilot.

(8) “License” or “certificate” means the document issued by the board under seal of the department to pilots.

(9) “Department” means the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.

History.—s. 2, ch. 75-201; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; ss. 1, 16, ch. 78-140; s. 185, ch. 81-259; s. 2, ch. 81-318; ss. 2, 3, ch. 84-185; ss. 1, 10, 11, ch. 86-280; s. 2, ch. 89-262; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 339, ch. 94-119; s. 32, ch. 94-218; s. 3, ch. 2010-225.

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Amendments to 310.002

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 310.002

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 310.002.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

FRS- FAST RELIABLE SEAWAY, LLC. v. BOARD OF PILOT COMMISSIONERS, 261 So. 3d 744 (Fla. App. Ct. 2018)

. . . ." § 310.002(2), Fla. Stat. (2017). . . .

E. RABREN, v. DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, v. BOARD OF PILOT COMMISSIONERS, E., 568 So. 2d 1283 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1990)

. . . Section 310.002(4), Florida Statutes (1987), defines the term “port” as follows: The word “port” means . . . (2) CFI, Gadsden Anchorage, Rockport and Big Bend are not “ports” within the definition of section 310.002 . . . Section 310.002(4), Florida Statutes, defines “port” to mean, any place in the state in which vessels . . . The definition section, [310.002(4) ] above quoted, lists five ports in Tampa Bay. . . . Industries, Rockport and Big Bend are ports within the meaning of Section 310.002(4), Florida Statutes . . .

RABREN v. BOARD OF PILOT COMMISSIONERS MURPHY, v. BOARD OF PILOT COMMISSIONERS, 497 So. 2d 1245 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986)

. . . Port is statutorily defined: 310.002 Definitions. . . . Section 310.002, Florida Statutes, defines “pilotage waters of the state”: 310.002 Definitions. . . . Since these words, which section 310.002, Florida Statutes, defines as “navigable waters within the boundaries . . . that any vessel required to have a state pilot in pilotage waters of this state (as defined in section 310.002 . . .