Texas Transportation Code - Section 61.002. Definitions
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§ 61.002. DEFINITIONS. 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.
(6) "Port" means a place in this state into which a
vessel enters or from which a vessel departs. If the port connects
to the Gulf of Mexico, "port" includes the waterway leading from the
port to the Gulf of Mexico.
(7) "Vessel" means an oceangoing vessel.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Section: 55.005 55.006 55.007 55.008 55.009 60.001 61.001 61.002 61.003 61.004 61.005 61.006 61.007 61.008 61.009
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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