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(d)    Public interest in maintaining efficient and reliable pilot-
age service.

(e)    Other factors relevant to the determination of just and
reasonable rates.

All pilotage fees and charges provided by applicable laws shall
remain in full force and effect until changed by the Board of Exami-
ners of Maryland Pilots.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1969.

Approved May 14, 1969.

CHAPTER 578
(House Bill 589)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 12 of
Article 74 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement
Volume), title "Pilots," to provide for distribution of pilotage fees
to full member pilots who have become disabled, disposition of
balance of funds, meaning of terms in this section, and other
matters relating thereto, and correcting an error therein.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 12 of Article 74 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Replacement Volume), title "Pilots," be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

12.

[The money collected by the Association of Maryland Pilots for
piloting services under this article shall be distributed as follows:]

The money due for pilotage services under this Article shall be
payable to the Association of Maryland Pilots as collection agent
for its members and any monies received shall be distributed as
follows:

(a) There shall first be distributed to the Board of Examiners
of Maryland Pilots within ten (10) days after the close of each
calendar month an amount equal to two hundred dollars ($200.00)
or [25%] 33⅓% of the said monthly distributive portion to which a
full member pilot engaged in full active service is entitled to receive
for such calendar month, whichever is the greater, times the number
of living pilots of the Association of Maryland Pilots who at the
beginning of such month are either inactive or permanently incap-
able of performing their duties as hereinafter defined and who prior
to becoming inactive or disabled were full member pilots of the
Association of Maryland Pilots; the Board of Examiners of Maryland
Pilots shall [with] within ten (10) days after receipt of the sum or
sums fixed in this subsection disburse the same equally to such of the
living pilots of the Association of Maryland Pilots, who, at the
beginning of the calendar month for which said payment is made,
were either inactive or permanently incapable of performing their