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Texas Transportation Code - Section 62.065. Liability Of Certain Vessels Declining Pilot Services

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§ 62.065. LIABILITY OF CERTAIN VESSELS DECLINING PILOT 
SERVICES.  (a) A vessel that, without the aid of a pilot, enters any 
channel that is under the jurisdiction of a pilot board of a 
navigation district and declines pilot services offered by the 
pilot outside the bar, is liable for the payment of half pilotage to 
the first pilot whose services the vessel declined.
	(b)  The consignee of a vessel is responsible for pilot 
services offered and declined under Subsection (a).

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

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