N.J. Stat. § 12:8-8.1
The maritime pilots shall provide vessels or aircraft to embark and disembark maritime pilots to and from vessels required to take a maritime pilot. The general location and type of vessels or aircraft shall be approved by the commission after consultation with the maritime pilots and Commissioners of Pilotage of the State of New York. Maritime pilots assigned to inbound vessels or vessels operating on the waters of this State or boundary waters of this State and the state of New York are not entitled to their discharge until the vessel has arrived at a safe anchorage or is secure in a berth. Maritime pilots assigned to outbound vessels are not entitled to their discharge until the vessel has been brought to a safe anchorage or has reached the pilot station or a point substantially seaward of the sea buoys, or, upon their removal, of the entrance buoys, for Ambrose or Sandy Hook channels.
N.J.S. § 12:8-8.1