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. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 745, Sec. 1, eff. June 20, 2003.
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