Tex.
Transp. Code Section 70.002
Definitions
(1)
“Board” means the board of pilot commissioners for the Port of Corpus Christi Authority.(2)
“Consignee” means a person, including a master, owner, agent, subagent, person, firm or corporation, or any combination of those persons, who enters or clears a vessel at the Office of United States Customs.(3)
“Port of Corpus Christi” means a place into which a vessel enters or from which a vessel departs and the waterway leading to that place from the Gulf of Mexico under the jurisdiction of the Port of Corpus Christi Authority.(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 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.
Source:
Section 70.002 — Definitions, https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.70.htm#70.002 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).
