Section 22-113. Assignment of berths for vessels

a. Applications for berths
  shall be filed as the commissioner shall direct and shall be  considered
  in the order of receipt. The commissioner shall have power:
    1.  To  provide  and  assign suitable accommodations for all ships and
  vessels, and to regulate them in the berths they are to occupy at  wharf
  property;
    2.  To remove from time to time such vessels not employed in receiving
  or discharging cargoes, to make room for such others as  require  to  be
  more immediately accommodated for that purpose;
    3.  To  determine  as to the fact of such vessels being, fairly and in
  good faith, employed in receiving and discharging cargoes;
    4. To determine how far and in what instance the  master,  and  others
  having  charge  of  ships  and  vessels, shall accommodate each other in
  their respective situations.
    b. Any master or other person, having  charge  of  any  vessel,  canal
  boat,  barge  or  lighter,  who shall refuse or neglect to move the same
  when ordered to do so by the commissioner or other proper officer of the
  department, or who shall resist or forcibly oppose such commissioner  or
  officer  in  the discharge of his or her duties, for every such offense,
  shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars,  to  be  recovered  with
  costs by and in the name of the department of ports and trade.