Sec. 62.0061. HUNTING ON OR OVER CERTAIN SUBMERGED LAND    


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  • (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person may not hunt or take any wild animal or wild bird when the person is on or over privately owned land that is:

    (1) submerged under:

    (A) public fresh water due to seasonal or occasional innundation; or

    (B) public salt water and located above the mean high tide line of the Gulf of Mexico and its bays and estuaries; and

    (2) conspicuously marked as privately owned by a sign or signs that are substantially similar to the following:

    POSTED. PRIVATE PROPERTY. NO HUNTING.

    (b) This section does not apply to:

    (1) fishing or to fish and other aquatic life;

    (2) a person who:

    (A) owns the submerged land; or

    (B) obtains the landowner's consent;

    (3) land that is dedicated to the permanent school fund and that is located within:

    (A) the tidewater limits of this state; or

    (B) the gradient boundaries of a navigable river or stream in this state; or

    (4) land that is:

    (A) submerged by public water; and

    (B) located below the mean high tide line of the Gulf of Mexico and its bays and estuaries.

    (c) This section does not authorize a person to fish by any means or method or at any time or place that is otherwise prohibited by this code.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1002 , Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2005. Renumbered from Parks and Wildlife Code, Section 62.002 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 921 , Sec. 17.001(60), eff. September 1, 2007.