Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 12:8-16

  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
12:8-16. Whenever a person is first licensed as a maritime pilot, the president of the commission, or in the absence of the president, any commissioner, shall administer to that person the following oath:

“I, A.B., do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I will well and faithfully, and according to the best of my skill and knowledge, execute and discharge the business and duty of a deputy or full branch maritime pilot for pilotage waters including, but not limited to, the bar, Jersey City, Newark, and Perth Amboy and harbor of Sandy Hook, and any bays, rivers, harbors, or ports of the waters of this State between Sandy Hook, in the county of Monmouth and the city of Atlantic City, in the county of Atlantic, and that I will at all times use my best endeavors to repair on board all ships and vessels that I shall see and conceive to be bound for, or coming into, or going out of the harbor and bodies of water aforesaid, unless I am well assured that some other licensed pilot is then on board the same; and I do further swear (or affirm), that I will, from time to time and at all times, make the best dispatch in my power to bring safely over the bar at Sandy Hook and into any bays, rivers, harbors, or ports of the waters of this State between Sandy Hook, in the county of Monmouth and the city of Atlantic City, in the county of Atlantic, every vessel committed to my care in coming in or going out; and that I will, from time to time and at all times, truly observe, follow and fulfill, to the best of my skill, ability, and knowledge, all such orders and directions as I shall or may receive from the New Jersey Maritime Pilot and Docking Pilot Commission, relative to all matters or things that may appertain to the duty of a pilot.”

Amended 1987, c.435, s.2; 1991, c.76, s.3; 2004, c.72, s.20.