Tex. Transportation Code § 61.002: DEFINITIONS.

In this chapter:

(1) "Board" means the board of pilot commissioners for a port.

(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) "Pilot" means a licensed state pilot or certified deputy pilot.

(4) "Pilot services" means acts of a pilot in piloting through navigable water in this state and ports in which the pilot is licensed or certified as a pilot.

(5) "Pilotage rate" means the remuneration a pilot may charge a vessel for the pilot's services.

(6) "Port" means a place in this state into which a vessel enters or from which a vessel departs. If the port connects to the Gulf of Mexico, "port" includes the waterway leading from the port to the Gulf of Mexico.

(7) "Vessel" means an oceangoing vessel.

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