55 Pa. Stat. § 173.1

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-95
Section 173.1 - Rates of pilotage; computation

For services rendered on and after January 1, 1990, retroactively, the rates of pilotage for conducting a vessel from the Capes of the Delaware to a place on the Delaware River or Bay no further upriver than the Delair Railroad Bridge between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Delair, New Jersey, or from a place on the river Delaware no further upriver than the Delair Railroad Bridge between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Delair, New Jersey, to the Capes of the Delaware, in either case, shall be computed as follows:

(a) A charge, to be known as a unit charge, will be made for each pilotage, determined by length overall (in feet) multiplied by the extreme breadth (in feet) of the vessel, divided by one hundred.
(a.1) For the purposes of this act, the following definitions shall be applied:

"Extreme breadth" shall be the maximum breadth between the outside of the shell platings of the vessel.

"Length overall" shall be the distance between the forward and after extremities of the vessel.

"Measurements" shall be in feet and inches (United States).

Inches shall be converted as follows:

1" =.1

4" =.3

7" =.6

10" =.8

2" =.2

5" =.4

8" =.7

11" =.9

3" =.3

6" =.5

9" =.8

(b) The charges per unit shall be as follows:
(xi) Effective January 1, 2022............. $14.91 per unit
(xii) Effective January 1, 2023............ $15.66 per unit
(xiii) Effective January 1, 2024........... $16.44 per unit
(xiv) Effective January 1, 2025............ $17.26 per unit
(c) There shall be a minimum charge of two hundred units and a maximum unit charge as follows:
(xi) Effective January 1, 2022............. 1,550 units
(xii) Effective January 1, 2023............ 1,550 units
(xiii) Effective January 1, 2024........... 1,550 units
(xiv) Effective January 1, 2025............ 1,550 units

55 P.S. § 173.1

Amended by P.L. TBD 2022 No. 39, § 1, eff. 9/6/2022.
Amended by P.L. TBD 2019 No. 26, § 1, eff. 8/27/2019.
Amended by P.L. TBD 2016 No. 148, § 1, eff. 1/3/2017.
1889, May 11, P.L. 188, § 3.1, added 1977 , Dec. 23, P.L. 354, No. 108, § 2, imd. effective. Amended 1981 , April 3, P.L. 4, No. 2, § 2, imd. effective; 1984 , March 19, P.L. 135, No. 25, § 1, imd. effective; 1987 , June 22, P.L. 27, No. 12, § 1, imd. effective; 1990, June 13, P.L. 232, No. 52, §1, imd. effective; 1993 , June 23, P.L. 111, No. 26, § 1, effective in 60 days; 1995, June 1, P.L. 46, No. 6, §1, imd. effective; 1998 , May 15, P.L. 447, No. 62, § 1, imd. effective; 2001, May 17, P.L. 96, No. 10, § 1, effective in 60 days; 2004, June 28, P.L. 449, No. 47, §1, effective 8/27/2004; 2007, June 30, P.L. 63, No. 19, §1, effective in 60 days [ 8/29/2007]; 2010, Oct. 7, P.L. 502, No. 71, §1, effective in 60 days [ 12/6/2010].