Tex. Transp. Code § 63.003 · Subchapter A. PILOT BOARDS AND COMMITTEES
POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A pilot board shall:
(1) examine and determine the qualifications of each applicant for branch or deputy pilot;
(2) recommend meritorious applicants to the governor, if new appointments are proper;
(3) examine any cause of alleged or suspected misconduct or inefficiency in a branch or deputy pilot;
(4) keep a record of its proceedings;
(5) hear and determine all disputes that arise regarding pilots and pilotage;
(6) award to pilots compensation for injurious loss of time incurred in waiting on vessels or by being carried to sea on a vessel by default of the master or owner when the pilot might have been landed;
(7) award to pilots extra compensation for extra services to vessels in distress; and
(8) superintend and generally attend to all matters related to pilots and pilotage.
(b) A pilot board, after a hearing, may suspend a pilot for sufficient cause.
(c) A pilot board may examine and determine the qualifications of a branch or deputy pilot already appointed when the board is organized.
(d) A pilot board may restrict all deputy pilots from piloting over the bar vessels that have over a specified draught of water.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.63.htm
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- Composed by
- 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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