Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 42.006 · Chapter 42. GENERAL HUNTING LICENSE
POSSESSION OF LICENSE; RULES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission by rule may prescribe requirements relating to possessing a license issued under this chapter.
(b) Rules adopted under Subsection (a) must allow for a person to present for the purpose of verification of possession a hunting license as an image displayed on a wireless communication device. The image displayed may be either an image of information from the Internet website of the department or a photograph of a hunting license.
(c) The display of an image that includes hunting license information on a wireless communication device under this section does not constitute effective consent for a law enforcement officer, or any other person, to access the contents of the wireless communication device except to view the hunting license information.
(d) The authorization of the use of a wireless communication device to display hunting license information under Subsection (b) does not prevent a court of competent jurisdiction from requiring a person to provide a paper copy of the person's hunting license in a hearing or trial or in connection with discovery proceedings.
(e) A telecommunications provider, as defined by Section 51.002, Utilities Code, may not be held liable to the holder of a hunting license for the failure of a wireless communication device to display hunting license information under Subsection (b).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 931, Sec. 5, eff. June 16, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 41 (H.B. 547), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PW/htm/PW.42.htm
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