Texas Transportation Code - Section 67.002. Definitions
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§ 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, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Section: 66.069 66.070 66.071 66.081 66.082 66.083 67.001 67.002 67.003 67.011 67.012 67.013 67.014 67.015 67.016
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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