DIVISION 4. MASTERS, CREWS AND CARGOES 790-876›CHAPTER 2. Ship Masters and Cargoes 800-821

§ 802

California Harbors and Navigation Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

On entering or leaving a port, harbor, or river, the master of a vessel, the navigation of which is not in charge of a pilot, licensed for that port, harbor, or river, shall take a pilot if one offers himself. While the pilot is on board the navigation of the vessel devolves on him.

(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)

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