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Ex. AGY-USCG-PORTS-089 Order Primary source read

Essential Service Letter for State-licensed San Francisco Bar Pilots (Mar. 20, 2020)

To whom it may concern: San Francisco Bar Pilot essential government service letter

Allen Garfinkle, Executive Director, Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun · Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun (State of California) (State)

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Jurisdiction
Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun (State of California) · California
Level
State
Authority
Cal. Harb. & Nav. Code 1154, 1156; EO N-33-20 (essential critical infrastructure workers)
Issued
2020-03-20 Mar. 20, 2020
Effective
2020-03-20
End
for the duration of the shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders (read as 2021-06-30)
In force
Mar. 20, 2020 to June 30, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeTravel and quarantineOther
Addressees
  • law enforcement and officials enforcing the shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders
  • State-licensed pilots
Functions reached
  • WF pilots' movement under stay-at-home orders
  • DR/PT every ship movement over 750 GT in San Francisco Bay (Oakland, Richmond, Stockton, Sacramento)
  • TRAV travel to and from pilot stations
Collection
Coast Guard and ports AGY-USCG-PORTS

Operative words

The bearer of this letter is a San Francisco Bar Pilot, licensed by the State of California to guide commercial ships in and out of San Francisco Bay and surrounding waters. By law all ships over 750 Gross Tons are required to use a state licensed pilot while operating on these waters. This is an essential government service within the meaning of the current Shelter in Place/Stay at Home Orders regarding the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Please confirm the identity of this pilot by requesting to see and checking their State License identification card they carry.

Enforcement

Shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders (Cal. Gov. Code 8665; Health & Safety Code 120295) as they exempted essential workers

Notes

A State commission's contemporaneous certification that the shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders were operating on the pilots who bring every large ship into Northern California's ports.

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