Before receiving his or her branch, the bar pilot must make and deliver to the commissioners a bond payable to the chair of the commission and his or her successors, in the penal sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) with surety to be approved by the commissioners, and with conditions faithfully to perform his or her duties as bar pilot; and this bond must be renewed every six years.
Ala. Code § 33-4A-25 (1975)