Tex. Transp. Code Section 70.002
Definitions

In this chapter:

(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.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 359, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

Source: Section 70.002 — Definitions, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.­70.­htm#70.­002 (accessed May 18, 2024).

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