Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 43.525 · Subchapter O. CONSERVATION PERMITS
FAILURE OR REFUSAL TO SHOW CONSERVATION PERMIT; PENALTY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person commits an offense if the person is using land under the department's control and fails or refuses to show a conservation permit issued to the person on the demand of a game warden, peace officer, or department employee.
(b) It is not an offense under Subsection (a) if a person who is using land under the department's control fails to show a conservation permit on the demand of a game warden, peace officer, or department employee, and that person:
(1) entered land under the department's control as an occupant of a privately owned, noncommercial vehicle in which at least one other occupant possesses and is able to show a conservation permit issued to that other occupant; or
(2) is a member of a group of individuals that the department has exempted from the requirement for a conservation permit.
(c) An offense under this section is a Class C Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 883, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 78 (H.B. 1346), Sec. 2, eff. May 19, 2011.
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.43.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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