No A master, agent, owner, charterer or consignee shall may not charge a commission or receive any payment directly or indirectly, for the assignment of pilotage, nor shall may any pilot pay or offer to pay to any person any commission for the assignment of pilotage. Any person violating this section commits a civil violation for which a forfeiture not to exceed $500 $5,000 may be adjudged for each violation.

Sec. 20. 38 MRSA §99, as amended by PL 1985, c. 389, §39, is further amended to read;

§99. Grounds for disciplinary action

The Administrative Court commission may suspend any pilot for any period that it may deem consider proper, and may suspend, revoke or annul any pilot's license which shall be that is issued under sections 85 to 106 this subchapter, upon satisfactory proof that such a pilot has willfully disobeyed or violated any of the provisions of sections 85 to 106 this subchapter or any rule established by the commission; or such a pilot has negligently lost or damaged any vessel under his that pilot's care; or such a pilot is habitually intemperate in the use of alcohol or habitually uses narcotic or hypnotic or other substances so as to be unfit to be entrusted with the charge of a vessel; or the pilot is so mentally or physically incapable as to be unfit to carry on the duties of a pilot.

Sec. 21. 38 MRSA §100-A is enacted to read:

§100-A.__Confidentiality of complaints and investigative

records

1.__During investigation.__All complaints and investigative records of the commission are confidential during the pendency of an investigation.__Those records become public records upon the conclusion of an investigation unless confidentiality is required by some other provision of law.__For purposes of this section, an investigation is concluded when:

A.__A notice of an adjudicatory hearing under Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter IV has been issued;

B.__The complaint has been listed on a meeting agenda of the commission;

C.__A consent agreement has been executed; or