Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 65.001 · Chapter 65. ALLIGATORS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Alligator" means a living or dead American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis).
(2) "Alligator hunter" means a person who takes an alligator, an alligator egg, or any part of an alligator.
(3) "Possess" means the act of having in possession or control, keeping, detaining, restraining, or holding as owner or as agent, bailee, or custodian for another.
(4) "Take" means the act of hooking, netting, snaring, trapping, pursuing, shooting, killing, capturing, or collecting by any means or device and includes the attempt to take by the use of any method.
(5) "Resident" means an individual who has resided continuously in this state during the six months preceding the individual's application for any license or permit issued under this chapter.
(6) "Nonresident" means an individual who is not a resident.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 437, ch. 184, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 31, 1981. Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 190, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 301, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1256, Sec. 97, 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.65.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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