Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 42.010 · Chapter 42. GENERAL HUNTING LICENSE
ISSUANCE AND FORM OF LICENSES AND TAGS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department shall prescribe the form of and issue the licenses and tags authorized by this chapter.
(b) The department may issue tags for animals or birds allowed by law to be killed during each year or season to holders of licenses authorizing the killing of animals or birds. The commission may establish fees for the tags.
(c) A person commits an offense if the person does not enter the required information on a license or tag before hunting or if the person possesses a tag without a name entered on the tag.
(d) No person may issue or receive a license or tag authorized by this chapter except on the form provided by the department.
(e) The commission by regulation shall determine the number of tags that may be issued to an individual for taking animals or birds.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1975. Amended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 612, ch. 223, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1977; Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 267, art. 2, Sec. 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1986; Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 911, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 931, Sec. 6, eff. June 16, 1995.
Source of truth
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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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