Texas Transportation Code 61.002 – Definitions
Terms Used In Texas Transportation Code 61.002
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
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.