{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-69.002","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Transportation Code § 69.002","heading":"DEFINITIONS.","body":"In this chapter:\n(1) \"Board\" means the board of pilot commissioners described by Section 69.011.\n(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.\n(3) \"Jefferson or Orange County port\" means a place in Jefferson or Orange 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(4) \"Pilot\" means a person who is licensed 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 pilot services.\n(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.\n(7) \"Vessel\" means an oceangoing vessel.\nAdded by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 745, Sec. 1, eff. June 20, 2003.","path":["TRANSPORTATION CODE","TITLE 4. NAVIGATION","SUBTITLE B. PILOTS","CHAPTER 69. JEFFERSON AND ORANGE COUNTY PILOTS LICENSING AND REGULATORY ACT","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.69.htm#69.002","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:44Z","sha256":"f91a38e7d3cf4e82686cc7e89362b2169ae5b9ec260f5b1ceb756372121d8e3d","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-69.001","next":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-69.003"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}