Texas Transportation Code - Section 70.002. Definitions
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§ 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, § 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Section: 69.069 69.070 69.071 69.081 69.082 69.083 70.001 70.002 70.003 70.011 70.012 70.013 70.014 70.015 70.016
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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