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Texas Transportation Code - Section 68.002. Definitions

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§ 68.002. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the board of pilot commissioners for Brazoria County ports. (2) "Brazoria County port" means a place in Brazoria County into which a vessel enters or from which a vessel departs and the waterway leading to that place from the Gulf of Mexico. (3) "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. (4) "Pilot" means a person who is licensed and commissioned 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 the pilot's 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.

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