Tex. Transportation Code § 64.006
This is the official text of Tex. Transportation Code § 64.006, part of Texas’s Transportation Code — governs vehicles, drivers, and roadways.
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§ 64.006. UNAUTHORIZED PILOT; LIABILITY.
Official statutory text
(a) In addition to any other applicable remedy provided by law, a person who has not been appointed to be a branch or deputy pilot and who pilots a vessel out of or into a port after a branch or deputy pilot who is licensed to provide pilot services for the port offers to do so is liable to pay $50 to the branch or deputy pilot.
(b) The branch or deputy pilot may bring suit to recover the money.
(b) The branch or deputy pilot may bring suit to recover the money.
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