Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 12.019 · Subchapter A. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES

PENALTIES.

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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, a person who violates Section 12.015, 12.017, or 12.504 of this code or a regulation adopted under Section 12.015 of this code commits an offense that is a Class C Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor.

(b) If it is shown at the trial of the defendant for a violation of Section 12.017 of this code that he has been convicted within five years before the trial date of a violation of that section, on conviction he shall be punished for a Class B Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor.

(c) A person who violates Section 12.505 of this code commits an offense that is a Class A Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 267, art. 3, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.

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Edition: Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Official file: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PW/htm/PW.12.htm
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