Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 42.0211: TAKING OF UNBANDED PEN-REARED PHEASANT OR QUAIL BY CERTAIN LANDOWNERS.

Where this section sits in the code

PARKS AND WILDLIFE CODE
TITLE 5. WILDLIFE AND PLANT CONSERVATION
SUBTITLE A. HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES
CHAPTER 42. GENERAL HUNTING LICENSE

(a) This section applies only to:

(1) noncommercial activity; and

(2) the taking of pheasant or quail on a property of at least five contiguous acres.

(b) Notwithstanding any other law requiring the banding of a bird, a person, or the person's guest when accompanied by the person, may take on the person's property unbanded pen-reared pheasant or quail.

(1) affects the requirement to acquire a license under Section 45.001 for the propagation of game birds; or

(2) authorizes a person to:

(A) exceed a bag limit for pheasant or quail; or

(B) take pheasant or quail during a closed season.

Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 67 (H.B. 1699), Sec. 1, eff. May 19, 2021.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:32Z. Source file · JSON

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