Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 62.011 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
RETRIEVAL AND WASTE OF GAME.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), it is an offense if a person while hunting kills or wounds a game bird or game animal and intentionally or knowingly fails to make a reasonable effort to retrieve the animal or bird and include it in the person's daily or seasonal bag limit.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), it is an offense if a person intentionally takes or possesses a game bird, game animal, or fish and intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence fails to keep the edible portions of the bird, animal, or fish in an edible condition.
(c) It is an offense if a person while hunting kills or wounds a desert bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope, mule deer, or white-tailed deer in violation of Section 61.022, 62.003, 62.0031, 62.004, or 62.005 and intentionally or knowingly fails to make a reasonable effort to retrieve the animal or intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence fails to keep the edible parts of the animal in an edible condition.
(d) In this section:
(1) "Edible condition" means fit for human consumption. The term does not include any portion of a game bird, game animal, or fish that is:
(A) bruised by bullet, shot, or arrow, or otherwise destroyed as a result of harvest;
(B) decayed or rotting; or
(C) obviously infected or diseased.
(2) "Edible parts" means the meaty portions of a carcass that are retained for consumption after quartering as defined in Section 42.001(8).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1214, ch. 456, Sec. 15, eff. Sept. 1, 1975. Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 267, art. 3, Sec. 110, eff. Sept. 1, 1985; Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 267, art. 4, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 138 (S.B. 1121), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PW/htm/PW.62.htm
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Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Parks and Wildlife Code
- Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 42.001DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 42.001(8)
- Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 61.022TAKING WILDLIFE RESOURCES WITHOUT CONSENT OF LANDOWNER PROHIBITED.Printed as Section 61.022, 62.003, 62.0031, 62.004, or 62.005
- Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 62.003HUNTING FROM VEHICLES.Printed as Section 61.022, 62.003, 62.0031, 62.004, or 62.005
- Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 62.0031HUNTING FROM PUBLIC ROAD OR RIGHT-OF-WAY PROHIBITED.Printed as Section 61.022, 62.003, 62.0031, 62.004, or 62.005
- Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 62.004HUNTING AT NIGHT.Printed as Section 61.022, 62.003, 62.0031, 62.004, or 62.005
- Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 62.005HUNTING WITH LIGHT.Printed as Section 61.022, 62.003, 62.0031, 62.004, or 62.005
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Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 62.011. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Parks and Wildlife Code
- Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 12.5015AUTOMATIC REVOCATION OF HUNTING OR FISHING LICENSE OR PERMIT.Printed as Section 61.022, 62.003, 62.004, 62.005, 62.0065, 62.011(c), 66.004(a), or 66.004(c) | Section 61.022, 62.003, 62.004, 62.005, 62.0065, 62.011, 66.004(a), or 66.004(c)
- Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 62.013PENALTIES.Printed as Section 62.003, 62.004, 62.005, 62.0065, 62.011(c), or 350.001
- Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 62.017DISPOSITION OF SEIZED PROPERTY.Printed as Section 61.022, 62.003, 62.004, 62.005, 62.0065, or 62.011(c)
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