Tex. Transp. Code § 69.032 · Subchapter C. PILOT LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES

EXEMPTIONS.

Verbatim from the official edition

Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

The requirement to use a pilot does not apply to:

(1) a vessel sailing under enrollment, or licensed or engaged in the coasting trade between Texas ports or between any Texas port and any other port of the United States; or

(2) a vessel exempt under federal law from payment of state pilotage rates.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 745, Sec. 1, eff. June 20, 2003.

Source of truth

Edition: Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Official file: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.69.htm
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