California Harbors and Navigation Code

§ 1170.3

HNC § 1170.3 Effective Jan 1, 2002Div. 5 · Ch. 4 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)The board shall adopt, by regulation, a pilot’s conflict-of-interest code, which shall include, but need not be limited to, a provision specifying that a pilot shall not have any interest in, or derive any income from, any tugboat in operation on Monterey Bay and the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun. This requirement of divestiture does not apply to the ownership of barges and vessels similar to barges.

(b)The conflict-of-interest code shall not prohibit the ownership of stock in any corporation registered on a national securities exchange or on the National Market System of the NASDAQ Stock Market, pursuant to Section 78f of Title 15 of the United States Code, which may own tugboats in operation on Monterey Bay and the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun.

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 177, Sec. 19. Effective January 1, 2002.