Tex. Transportation Code § 71.001
This is the official text of Tex. Transportation Code § 71.001, part of Texas’s Transportation Code — governs vehicles, drivers, and roadways.
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§ 71.001. DEFINITIONS.
Official statutory text
In this chapter:
(1) "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.
(2) "Navigation district" means a navigation district included in:
(A) Subchapters C, D, E, F, G, and H, Chapter 60, Water Code;
(B) Subchapter E, Chapter 61, Water Code; or
(C) Sections 62.154 through 62.159, Water Code.
(3) "Pilot" means a person who is licensed as a branch pilot or certified as a deputy branch pilot under this chapter.
(4) "Pilot services" means acts of a pilot in piloting through navigable water in this state and ports in which the pilot is licensed or certified as a pilot.
(5) "Pilotage rate" means the remuneration a pilot may charge a vessel for the pilot's services.
(6) "Port" means a place in this state into which a vessel enters or from which a vessel departs. If the port connects to the Gulf of Mexico, "port" includes the waterway leading from the port to the Gulf of Mexico.
(7) "Vessel" means an oceangoing vessel.
(1) "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.
(2) "Navigation district" means a navigation district included in:
(A) Subchapters C, D, E, F, G, and H, Chapter 60, Water Code;
(B) Subchapter E, Chapter 61, Water Code; or
(C) Sections 62.154 through 62.159, Water Code.
(3) "Pilot" means a person who is licensed as a branch pilot or certified as a deputy branch pilot under this chapter.
(4) "Pilot services" means acts of a pilot in piloting through navigable water in this state and ports in which the pilot is licensed or certified as a pilot.
(5) "Pilotage rate" means the remuneration a pilot may charge a vessel for the pilot's services.
(6) "Port" means a place in this state into which a vessel enters or from which a vessel departs. If the port connects to the Gulf of Mexico, "port" includes the waterway leading from the port to the Gulf of Mexico.
(7) "Vessel" means an oceangoing vessel.
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