Section 33-4-30
Number of pilots; application, examination and certification required for license.
(a) At no time shall there exist more apprentices or pilots than are reasonably necessary to meet the requirements of commerce, the number of apprentices and pilots to be left to the reasonable discretion of the State Pilotage Commission.
(b) The commission shall be the sole judge of the seniority and statutory qualifications of applicants to be apprenticed and branched.
(Acts 1931, No. 81, p. 154, §9; Code 1940, T. 38, §56; Acts 1990, No. 90-630, p. 1154, §1.)