Texas Transportation Code

§ 61.002 — DEFINITIONS

TN § 61.002Title 4. NAVIGATION · Part B. PILOTS · Ch. 61. COMPULSORY PILOTAGE

Statute text

In this chapter:

(1)"Board" means the board of pilot commissioners for a port.

(2)"Consignee" means a person, including a master, owner, agent, subagent, firm, or corporation or any combination of those persons, who enters or clears a vessel at the office of the collector of customs.

(3)"Pilot" means a licensed state pilot or certified deputy pilot.

(4)"Pilot services" means acts of a pilot in piloting through navigable water in this state and ports in which the pilot is licensed or certified as a pilot.

(5)"Pilotage rate" means the remuneration a pilot may charge a vessel for the pilot's services.

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Legislative history

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.