Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 49.014 · Chapter 49. FALCONRY PERMIT
POWERS OF DEPARTMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The department may:
(1) prescribe rules for the taking, capture, possession, propagation, transportation, export, import, and sale of raptors, time and area from which raptors may be taken or captured, and species that may be taken or captured;
(2) provide standards for possessing and housing raptors held under a permit;
(3) prescribe annual reporting requirements and procedures;
(4) prescribe eligibility requirements and fees for and issue any falconry, raptor propagation, or nonresident trapping permit; and
(5) require and regulate the identification of raptors held by permit holders.
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. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1977; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1256, Sec. 70, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- 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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- 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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