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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXII
PORTS AND HARBORS
Chapter 310
PILOTS, PILOTING, AND PILOTAGE
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310.002 Definitions.As used in this chapter, except where the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) “Vessel” includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.
(2) “Pilot” means a licensed state pilot or a certificated deputy pilot.
(3) “Board” means the Board of Pilot Commissioners.
(4) “Port” means any place in the state into which vessels enter or depart and includes, without limitation, Fernandina, Nassau Inlet, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Canaveral, Ft. Pierce, Palm Beach, Port Everglades, Miami, Key West, Boca Grande, Charlotte Harbor, Punta Gorda, Tampa, Port Tampa, Port Manatee, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Apalachicola, Carrabelle, Panama City, Port St. Joe, and Pensacola.
(5) “Pilotage waters of the state” means the navigable waters within the boundaries of the state.
(6) “Piloting” means the acts of pilots in conducting vessels through the pilotage waters of the state.
(7) “Pilotage” means the compensation fixed by the Pilotage Rate Review Committee which is payable by a vessel, its owners, agents, charterers, or consignees to one or more pilots in the port where piloting is performed. The word “pilotage” also means the compensation of all types and sources derived by one or more pilots or deputy pilots for the performance of piloting at that port by licensed pilots or by certificated deputy pilots, whether such piloting is performed pursuant to this chapter or is performed by state-licensed pilots or state-certificated deputy pilots when acting as a federal pilot for vessels not required by this chapter to use a state-licensed pilot or state-certificated deputy pilot.
(8) “License” or “certificate” means the document issued by the board under seal of the department to pilots.
(9) “Department” means the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
History.s. 2, ch. 75-201; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; ss. 1, 16, ch. 78-140; s. 185, ch. 81-259; s. 2, ch. 81-318; ss. 2, 3, ch. 84-185; ss. 1, 10, 11, ch. 86-280; s. 2, ch. 89-262; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 339, ch. 94-119; s. 32, ch. 94-218; s. 3, ch. 2010-225.

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53 soc.sec.rep.ser. 905, Medicare & Medicaid Guide P 45,598, 11 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. C 431 Univ. Health Servs., Inc. v. Health & Human Servs., Donna Shalala, in Her Off. Capacity as Sec'y, 120 F.3d 1145 (11th Cir. 1997).

Cited 8 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

deemed uncollectible. 13 PRM § 310.2. 14 In 1987, Congress enacted
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Rabren v. Dept. of Prof. Reg., 568 So. 2d 1283 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1990 WL 146906

...The statute reads, in applicable part: All vessels, except vessels exempted by the laws of the United States or vessels drawing less than 7 feet of water, shall have a licensed state pilot on board when entering or leaving ports of this state. (Emphasis added). Section 310.002(4), Florida Statutes (1987), defines the term "port" as follows: The word "port" means any place in the state into which vessels enter or depart and includes, without limitation, Fernandina, Nassau Inlet, Jacksonville, St....
...ct take place. Appellant presented two defenses to the charges: (1) it was not appellant but his wife, TRICO's business manager, who made the assignments, and (2) CFI, Gadsden Anchorage, Rockport and Big Bend are not "ports" within the definition of section 310.002(4) so as to require a state pilot under section 310.141....
...than TRICO's business manager, assigned the federal pilot. More relevant to the instant appeal, however, are the hearing officer's findings concerning the definition of "port." The hearing officer included the following in his findings of fact: 14. Section 310.002(4), Florida Statutes, defines "port" to mean, any place in the state in which vessels enter and depart....
...of Section 310.141 do not require the presence of a licensed state pilot, or a deputy pilot, on board during these maneuvers. ... . In enacting Chapter 310 the Legislature has used the word port in difference [sic] contexts. The definition section, [310.002(4) above quoted, lists five ports in Tampa Bay....
...The significant change in the conclusions of law stated: In addition to the above Conclusions adopted from those of the Hearing Officer, the Board concludes that Gadsden Anchorage, C.F. Industries, Rockport and Big Bend are ports within the meaning of Section 310.002(4), Florida Statutes....
...ish this case from Jerry. While standing here is not overwhelmingly clear, we hold that appellant has standing. Appellant next argues that in concluding that Gadsden Anchorage, C.F. Industries, Rockport and Big Bend are "ports" within the meaning of section 310.002(4), the BPC adopted a nonrule policy without legislative authority and for which there is no evidentiary basis....
...The clear evidence of legislative intent that was present in Rabren is not present in the instant case. Although the definitional expansion that appellant now challenges would have a similar effect upon a limited area within Tampa Bay, the expansion appears to be permitted by the "without limitation" language in section 310.002(4)....
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Pugh v. Rainwater, 422 F. Supp. 498 (S.D. Fla. 1976).

Cited 3 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 1976 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12269

Prearraignment Procedure (Tent.Draft No. 5A 1973) § 310.2(2). [4] Those defendants who then could not post
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Rabren v. Bd. of Pilot Com'rs, 497 So. 2d 1245 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 11 Fla. L. Weekly 1881

...ne big port; and that the vessel should be required to have a state-licensed pilot only when it is "entering" or "leaving" Tampa Bay. The hearing officer found, and we feel correctly, that Tampa Bay is not just one port. Port is statutorily defined: 310.002 Definitions....
...(2) The Board shall determine the number of pilots in conformance with subsection (1) based on the supply and demand for piloting services and the public interest in maintaining efficient and safe piloting services. We affirm the Hearing Officer's finding that there exist four separate ports in Tampa Bay. Section 310.002, Florida Statutes, defines "pilotage waters of the state": 310.002 Definitions....
...(emphasis added) House Bill 1358, thus, contained the language "or when operating in pilot waters of the state." However, when the bill was passed into law and became section 310.141 it did not contain the words "or when operating in pilot waters of the state." Since these words, which section 310.002, Florida Statutes, defines as "navigable waters within the boundaries of the state" were omitted, we are required to note the significance of the omission....
...Petitioners argue that by failure to pass this language the Legislature intended to strictly limit the requirement for a state pilot only on foreign flag vessels entering or leaving a port in this state. A better reason for deleting the phrase "pilot waters of the state" from the 1975 legislation may be found in Section 310.002, Florida Statutes (1975), which provides: (5) The term `pilotage waters of state' means the navigable waters within the boundaries of the state....
...hich does not exclude the "shifting" activities described in this case. The legal import of the rule is to clarify the reach of the statute and make clear that any vessel required to have a state pilot in pilotage waters of this state (as defined in section 310.002(5), Florida Statutes (1983)), shall have such pilot on board during the course of moving the vessel incident to entering or leaving ports of this state, except in the docking and undocking mode....
...Certainly the record does not refute the hearing officer's finding that the subject phrase was probably deleted as surplusage because "pilotage waters" was already statutorily defined to mean "the navigable waters within the boundaries of the state" in section 310.002(5), Florida Statutes....
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Weinstein v. MacKey, 408 So. 2d 849 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

supra, § 231 at pp. 970-71; 2A R. Powell, supra, § 310[2]. We do not agree, however, with the appellants'
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Fed. Trade Comm'n v. Pointbreak Media, LLC, 376 F. Supp. 3d 1257 (S.D. Fla. 2019).

Cited 1 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida

customer in exchange for consideration." 16 C.F.R. § 310.2(dd), (ff). Pillonato and Ramsey do not dispute
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Broadcast Team, Inc. v. Fed. Trade Comm'n, 429 F. Supp. 2d 1292 (M.D. Fla. 2006).

Cited 1 times | Published | District Court, M.D. Florida | 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22049

calls to or from a customer or donor." 16 C.F.R. § 310.2(bb). "Telemarketing means a plan, program, or campaign
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FRS-Fast Reliable Seaway, LLC. v. Bd. of Pilot Comm'rs of Fla., 261 So. 3d 744 (Fla. 3d DCA 2018).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

state pilot or a certificated deputy pilot." § 310.002(2), Fla. Stat. (2017). This section reads in
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FRS-Fast Reliable Seaway, LLC. v. Bd. of Pilot Comm'rs of Fla., 261 So. 3d 744 (Fla. 3d DCA 2018).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

state pilot or a certificated deputy pilot." § 310.002(2), Fla. Stat. (2017). This section reads in
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Frs-Fast Reliable Seaway v. Bd. of Pilot Commissioners (Fla. 3d DCA 2018).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...sels calling on PortMiami. Two years later, in March of 2016, Pilots filed a competing application 1 Pilots navigate large ships in and out of the ports of Florida. “‘Pilot’ means a licensed state pilot or a certificated deputy pilot.” § 310.002(2), Fla....
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Univ. Health Servs., Inc. v. Health & Human Servs., 120 F.3d 1145 (11th Cir. 1997).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 22692, 1997 WL 469626

the debt may be deemed uncollectible. PRM § 310.2. In 1987, Congress enacted the Omnibus Budget