P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 361i
(a) In addition to any other requirement provided by this chapter, each licensed harbor pilot candidate of Puerto Rico must:
(1) Be at least twenty-one (21) years of age or over, evidenced by a copy of the birth certificate or other legal proof of age, when requesting the license.
(2) Have completed and approved twelve (12) years of formal education, evidenced by a high school diploma or by equivalent evidence thereof, which is satisfactory to the Commission.
(3) Be in good physical and mental health, evidenced by documentary evidence after having passed a complete physical and psychiatric examination administered by a licensed physician and a psychiatrist, respectively, who are accepted by the Commission, within thirty (30) days prior to his/her application for admission or renewal of the harbor pilot license.
(4) The Commission shall adopt rules to establish the parameters of the physical and psychiatric examinations, which shall include minimum patterns of the physical and mental capacity needed to perform the professional duties and obligations of a licensed harbor pilot of Puerto Rico. Said parameters shall include zero tolerance of any consumption of alcohol, drugs, narcotics or any other regulated controlled substance, unless the individual is under the care of a physician or psychiatrist and the controlled substance is prescribed by said physician or psychiatrist. To keep the Puerto Rico pilot license, each licensed harbor pilot shall provide annual documentary proof of having satisfactorily passed a complete medical and psychiatric examination administered by a licensed physician and psychiatrist, respectively. The physician and psychiatrist must have been accepted by the Commission and must know the minimum parameters, and certify that the license meets them satisfactorily. The patterns for licenses shall include drug testing to be performed at random by accredited laboratory technicians, and provide for the submission of biannual police records in evidence of good conduct.
(5) Have completed the required training as apprentice pilot, as approved by the Commission. At the time of submitting the application, each candidate shall have an unlimited valid harbor pilotage license from the United States Coast Guard which covers all the waters of the port or ports for which the Puerto Rico harbor License is requested, and must have completed the pilotage apprenticeship training in the port for which the Puerto Rico pilotage License is requested.
(6) Pilotage candidates shall submit for approval, the training and continuing education certificates that the Commission may require prior to issuing their license.
History —Aug. 12, 1999, No. 226, § 12, eff. 30 days after Aug. 12, 1999.