In this chapter:
- (1) "Board" means the board of pilot commissioners for a port.
- (2) "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.
- (3) "Pilot" means a licensed state pilot or certified deputy pilot.
- (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.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.