{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-70.002","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Transportation Code § 70.002","heading":"DEFINITIONS.","body":"In this chapter:\n(1) \"Board\" means the board of pilot commissioners for the Port of Corpus Christi Authority.\n(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.\n(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.\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 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 359, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.","path":["TRANSPORTATION CODE","TITLE 4. NAVIGATION","SUBTITLE B. PILOTS","CHAPTER 70. PORT OF CORPUS CHRISTI PILOTS LICENSING AND REGULATORY ACT","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.70.htm#70.002","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:44Z","sha256":"632a0e3b0363538bdcfa5dc2591788940e30b55a416c2c75f3115544f9bac2d9","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-70.001","next":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-70.003"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}