In this chapter:
(1) "Board" means the board of pilot commissioners for Harris County ports.
(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) "Harris County port" means a place in Harris County into which a vessel enters or from which a vessel departs and the waterway leading to that place from the Gulf of Mexico.
(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.
(5-a) "Pilot commissioner" means a member of the board.
(6) "Pilot services" means acts of a pilot in conducting a vessel through the navigable water in this state and the ports in which the pilot is licensed or certified as a pilot, and includes the adoption and implementation of ship movement strategies, such as navigation safety guidelines, for use by pilots in the navigable water in this state.
(7) "Vessel" means an oceangoing, self-propelled vessel.
Official text of the Texas Transportation Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.