Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
Section 69.032 - Exemptions The requirement to use a pilot does not apply to:
(1) a vessel sailing under enrollment, or licensed or engaged in the coasting trade between Texas ports or between any Texas port and any other port of the United States; or(2) a vessel exempt under federal law from payment of state pilotage rates.Tex. Transp. Code § 69.032
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 745, Sec. 1, eff. June 20, 2003.