{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-68.002","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Transportation Code § 68.002","heading":"DEFINITIONS.","body":"In this chapter:\n(1) \"Board\" means the board of pilot commissioners for Brazoria County ports.\n(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.\n(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.\n(4) \"Pilot\" means a person who is licensed and commissioned as a branch pilot or certified as a deputy branch pilot under this chapter.\n(5) \"Pilotage rate\" means the remuneration a pilot may lawfully charge a vessel for the pilot's services.\n(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.\n(7) \"Vessel\" means an oceangoing vessel.\nActs 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.","path":["TRANSPORTATION CODE","TITLE 4. NAVIGATION","SUBTITLE B. PILOTS","CHAPTER 68. BRAZORIA COUNTY PILOTS LICENSING AND REGULATORY ACT","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.68.htm#68.002","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:44Z","sha256":"89c0f44810bdbf2ffa09b91879c62f949e585adfd4791ed76f4da890a7530a8d","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-68.001","next":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-68.003"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}