Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 78.001 · Subchapter A. MUSSELS AND CLAMS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Commercial purposes" includes sale, barter, or exchange, or any other commercial use.
(2) "Mussels and clams" includes all freshwater and marine bivalve mollusks except species covered under other chapters of this code.
(3) "Nonresident" has the meaning assigned under Section 47.001 of this code.
(4) "Soft tissue" means mussel and clam body parts, exclusive of the shell, and pearls.
(5) "Resident" has the meaning assigned under Section 47.001 of this code.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 741, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
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.78.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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