Texas Transportation Code

§ 70.002 — DEFINITIONS

TN § 70.002Title 4. NAVIGATION · Part B. PILOTS · Ch. 70. PORT OF CORPUS CHRISTI PILOTS LICENSING AND REGULATORY ACT · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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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.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 359, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.