Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 49.011 · Chapter 49. FALCONRY PERMIT
TRANSFER OR SALE OF RAPTORS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as permitted in Subsections (b) and (c), no person may buy, sell, barter, or exchange, or offer to buy, sell, barter, or exchange, a raptor in this state.
(b) The holder of a falconer's permit may transfer a raptor to another holder of a falconer's permit or receive a raptor from another holder of a falconer's permit.
(c) A holder of a falconer's permit who qualifies as prescribed by commission rule may purchase raptors from any legal source and may sell captive-bred raptors to any person permitted to purchase captive-bred raptors.
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. 117, ch. 57, Sec. 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1977; Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 704, Sec. 27, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1256, Sec. 69, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
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.49.htm
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- 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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