Tex. Transp. Code § 71.001 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 821 (S.B. 1353), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.71.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
This section cites
Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Water Code
- Tex. Water Code ch. 60NAVIGATION DISTRICTS--GENERAL PROVISIONSPrinted as Chapter 60, Water Code
- Tex. Water Code ch. 61, subch. EPORT FACILITIESPrinted as Subchapter E, Chapter 61, Water Code
- Tex. Water Code § 62.154APPLICABILITY OF SECTIONS 62.155-62.159.Printed as Sections 62.154 through 62.159, Water Code
- Tex. Water Code § 62.159CONFLICTS WITH PRIOR BONDS OR OTHER LAWS.Printed as Sections 62.154 through 62.159, Water Code
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