Texas Transportation Code 70.002 – Definitions
Terms Used In Texas Transportation Code 70.002
- 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.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- 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
- United States: includes a department, bureau, or other agency of the United States of America. See Texas Government Code 311.005
In this chapter:
(1) “Board” means the board of pilot commissioners for the Port of Corpus Christi Authority.
(2) “Consignee” means a person, including a master, owner, agent, subagent, person, firm or corporation, or any combination of those persons, who enters or clears a vessel at the Office of United States Customs.
(3) “Port of Corpus Christi” means a place into which a vessel enters or from which a vessel departs and the waterway leading to that place from the Gulf of Mexico under the jurisdiction of the Port of Corpus Christi Authority.
(4) “Pilot” means a person who is licensed as a branch pilot or certified as a deputy branch pilot under this chapter.
(5) “Pilotage rate” means the remuneration a pilot may lawfully charge a vessel for pilot services.
(6) “Pilot services” means acts of a pilot in conducting a vessel through navigable water in this state and the ports in which the pilot is licensed or certified as a pilot.
(7) “Vessel” means an oceangoing vessel.