                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION TO PRESCRIBE AND ENFORCE RATES OF PILOTAGE AND
OTHER CHARGES (§ 54.1-918)

The State Corporation Commission shall prescribe and enforce the rates of
pilotage and other charges to be observed in the business of pilotage, but
before the Commission fixes or prescribes rates or charges it shall give ten
days&#8217; notice of the time and place of a hearing by publication in a
newspaper of general circulation in each of the Cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth
and Newport News. For the purpose of determining the fair basis of such rates
and charges, the Commission shall, for the two years next preceding, have access
to the books and records of the individual pilots who have no organized
association, and of any association of pilots who have an organized association
whose rates are to be fixed by the Commission, and shall have the same powers
given by law in fixing rates and charges of transportation companies.
		The Commission shall fix amounts that will be a fair charge for the service
rendered. The Commission shall have due regard for necessary operating expenses,
maintenance of, depreciation on, and return on investment in properties used and
useful in the business of pilotage, and the rates and charges of pilotage at
comparable and competing ports of the United States.
		When such rates and charges have been fixed and prescribed by the Commission,
they shall be the legal rates and charges of pilotage in Virginia, and shall be
enforced as provided by law, and the Commission shall have the power to change
or alter rates or charges after notice and hearing as provided in this section.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 54-562; 1988, c. 765; 1992, c. 10.