Tex. Transp. Code Section 67.002
Definitions


In this chapter:

(1)

“Board” means the board of pilot commissioners for Galveston County ports.

(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)

“Galveston County port” means a place in Galveston County into which a vessel enters or from which a vessel departs and the waterway leading to that place from the Gulf of Mexico.

(4)

“Pilot” means a person who is licensed as a branch pilot or certified as a deputy branch pilot under this chapter.

(5)

“Pilotage rate” means the remuneration a pilot may lawfully charge a vessel for pilot services.

(6)

“Pilot services” means acts of a pilot in conducting a vessel through the navigable water in this state and the ports in which the pilot is licensed or certified as a pilot.

(7)

“Vessel” means an oceangoing vessel.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Source: Section 67.002 — Definitions, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.­67.­htm#67.­002 (accessed May 18, 2024).

Accessed:
May 18, 2024

§ 67.002’s source at texas​.gov