§961.1. Employing pilot without a state commission; penalties
A. No master, owner, or agent of a vessel required under R.S. 34:953 to take a state commissioned bar pilot shall, when a state commissioned bar pilot offers his services, employ as a pilot a person who is not a state commissioned bar pilot.
B. Whoever violates this Section shall be fined not less than one thousand five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
Added by Acts 1983, No. 331, §1.