Texas Parks and Wildlife Code 42.005 – Nonresident License Required
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(a) No nonresident in this state may hunt a mule deer, white-tailed deer, turkey, pronghorn antelope, or desert bighorn sheep in this state without first having acquired a general nonresident hunting license.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (f), no nonresident may hunt any bird or animal in this state without first having acquired a general nonresident hunting license, a nonresident special hunting license, or a nonresident five-day special hunting license.
Terms Used In Texas Parks and Wildlife Code 42.005
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Take: except as otherwise provided by this code, means collect, hook, hunt, net, shoot, or snare, by any means or device, and includes an attempt to take or to pursue in order to take. See Texas Parks and Wildlife Code 1.101
- Year: means 12 consecutive months. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) A nonresident possessing a valid nonresident trapper’s license is not required to have a license issued under this section to take or possess the species governed by the license.
(d) No nonresident may hunt a turkey during the spring turkey hunting season without first having acquired a license as required by Subsection (b) of this section or a nonresident spring turkey hunting license.
(e) A nonresident may not acquire or possess during a license year:
(1) more than one nonresident spring turkey hunting license; or
(2) a general nonresident hunting license and a nonresident spring turkey hunting license.
(f) A nonresident landowner or any person, with the consent of the landowner, may take feral hogs on the nonresident landowner’s land without having acquired a hunting license required by this chapter.