Sec. 151.25. Clearance

(a) Every commercial float shall have a clearance. Clearances may be obtained from the operator of the first lock through which the float passes after taking cargo aboard. No float may proceed beyond the place for which it has clearance or unload any article before its arrival there. Float operators must obtain a new clearance whenever property is transferred from one float to another.

(b) A float operator shall display the clearance upon the request of any Canal Corporation employee. Unless the clearance has on it the signature of the issuing lock operator, the lock operators shall not permit the float to pass.

(c) A float whose clearance is lost may be detained until it is recleared or until the operator of the float has procured a duplicate clearance from the lock where clearance is claimed to have been issued.

(d) The Canal Corporation, or is representative, may refuse clearance for a float against whose owner there is an unpaid penalty involving such float assessed under this Chapter, or against whose owner there is an unpaid bill rendered by the Canal Corporation for assistance to such float, or for repairing damage to Canal Corporation property caused by such float.

(e) The Canal Corporation may refuse clearance for any float, or further passage of any float already in the canal, when, in the opinion of a Canal Corporation employee, its condition or equipment does not comply with this Chapter or its crew has navigated the float in a careless, reckless or inefficient manner.