Texas Transportation Code

§ 64.003 — PILOTAGE LIABILITY

TN § 64.003Title 4. NAVIGATION · Part B. PILOTS · Ch. 64. RATES OF PILOTAGE

Statute text

(a)A vessel that declines pilot services offered outside the bar and enters the port without the aid of a pilot is liable to the first pilot whose services the vessel declined for half pilotage.

(b)A vessel that, after being brought into port by a pilot, leaves port without employing a pilot is liable to the pilot who brought the vessel into port for the payment of half pilotage.

(c)A vessel that declines pilot services offered outside the bar, comes into port without the aid of a pilot, and leaves port without employing a pilot is liable to the pilot who first offered the pilot's services for the payment of half pilotage.

(d)A vessel that is not offered pilot services outside the bar and both enters and leaves the port without a pilot is not liable for the payment of half pilotage.

(e)At a port where vessels receive or discharge cargo at an anchorage outside the bar, a vessel:

(1)is liable for the payment of pilotage to the anchorage at the rate provided by Section 64.002; and

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Legislative history

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