Tex. Transportation Code § 62.065
This is the official text of Tex. Transportation Code § 62.065, part of Texas’s Transportation Code — governs vehicles, drivers, and roadways.
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§ 62.065. LIABILITY OF CERTAIN VESSELS DECLINING PILOT SERVICES.
Official statutory text
(a) A vessel that, without the aid of a pilot, enters any channel that is under the jurisdiction of a pilot board of a navigation district and declines pilot services offered by the pilot outside the bar, is liable for the payment of half pilotage to the first pilot whose services the vessel declined.
(b) The consignee of a vessel is responsible for pilot services offered and declined under Subsection (a).
(b) The consignee of a vessel is responsible for pilot services offered and declined under Subsection (a).
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