All vessels, barges, schooners, or other craft passing through the inland waterway of this State, when bound to a port or ports in this or any other state, be and the same are hereby exempt from the operations of the pilot laws of North Carolina and are not compelled to take a state-licensed pilot: Provided, that steam vessels not having a United States licensed pilot for the waters navigated on board shall be subject to the State pilot laws.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 76-44
Vessels on inland waterways exempt from pilot laws; proviso as to steam vessels
1917, c. 33, s. 2; C.S., s. 6985.
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