N.Y. Nav. Law § 91-b

§ 91-b. Licensing of Long Island-Block Island Sound Pilots. 1. The\ncommissioners, or a majority of them, shall license, for such terms as\nthey may think proper, as many pilots as they may deem necessary to\npilot ships transiting the New York state waters of Long Island Sound or\nBlock Island Sound east of Execution Rocks or Sands Point including any\nsuch vessel entering or departing from any port situated in the New York\nstate waters of Long Island Sound east of Execution Rocks and Sands\nPoint and on the continuation of Long Island Sound to a line running\nfrom the foot of City Island Avenue on City Island southerly to Stepping\nStones light, and such commissioners may specify in such licenses\ndifferent degrees of qualifications appropriate to different parts or\nbranches of pilot duty, according to the competency of the applicant.\n 2. Upon the taking effect of this chapter, all pilots who are then,\nand have been for the two years immediately prior thereto, actively\nengaged, as a regular occupation, in piloting seagoing vessels through\nthe waters specified in this chapter shall, upon application, be\nlicensed as full branch Long Island-Block Island Sound pilots for the\nwaters covered by this chapter if found by the commissioners to be\nqualified in accordance with their regulations in effect on March\nseventeenth, nineteen hundred seventy-one, except that any person who is\nfound to be so qualified who has reached his sixtieth birthday prior to\nthe effective date of this act shall be eligible to renew his license\nuntil age seventy.\n