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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="11-504" title_number="11" title_name="Pilots" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Employment and Compensation of Pilots">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A pilot is eligible for payments as an inactive pilot under § 11-505 of this subtitle if the pilot:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>chooses to be placed on the list of inactive pilots maintained by the Association; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>has been, for at least 25 years:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>a member in good standing of the Association; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>licensed by the Board to provide pilotage for vessels of unlimited draft; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <level label="1">
          <text>has been certified by two physicians chosen by the Board to be permanently incapable of providing pilotage; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>has had a federal or State pilot’s license revoked for physical disability; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>before becoming permanently disabled, the pilot was:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>a member in good standing of the Association; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>licensed by the Board to provide pilotage for vessels of any draft.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A pilot is eligible for reduced payments as an inactive pilot under § 11-505 of this subtitle if the pilot:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>chooses to be placed on the list of inactive pilots maintained by the Association; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>has been, for at least 20 years:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a member in good standing of the Association; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>licensed by the Board to provide pilotage for vessels of unlimited draft.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Eligibility for payments as an inactive pilot shall cease if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a pilot who was declared permanently incapable of providing pilotage becomes capable of providing pilotage; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a pilot who had a federal or State pilot’s license revoked for physical disability has the license reissued.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Time of service as a licensed docking master on or before September 30, 2004, shall be included in determining a pilot’s eligibility for payment as an inactive pilot.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A pilot who held an unlimited docking master license on October 1, 2000, is eligible for reduced payments as an inactive pilot under § 11-505 of this subtitle if the pilot:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>chooses to be placed on the list of inactive pilots maintained by the Association; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>has been, for at least 5 years:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a member in good standing of the Association or of the Association of Maryland Docking Pilots; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>licensed by the Board to provide pilotage for vessels of unlimited draft.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
