Tex. Transp. Code § 62.065 · Subchapter D. PILOTAGE CHARGES AND LIABILITY
LIABILITY OF CERTAIN VESSELS DECLINING PILOT SERVICES.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(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).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.62.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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