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.
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 821 (S.B. 1353), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2025.