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

Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 43.1095: PROHIBITED ACTS.

(a) For purposes of this subchapter, a person commits an offense if that person:
(1) hunts or kills, or attempts to hunt or kill, from an aircraft any animal or bird that is not specifically authorized by a permit issued under this subchapter;
(2) uses an aircraft to manage wildlife or exotic animals without first obtaining and having in the person's immediate possession a permit and a landowner's authorization for the management of wildlife or exotic animals by the use of aircraft; or
(3) uses an aircraft to harass wildlife, exotic animals, or any other animal or bird.
(b) It is a defense to prosecution for harassment of wildlife or exotic animals under this section if the person is engaged in the activity of counting, photographing, relocating, capturing, or hunting wildlife or exotic animals under the authority of a permit under this subchapter.
(c) Nothing in this chapter authorizes a person to hunt any animal or bird from an aircraft for sport.
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 969, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Where this section sits in the code

PARKS AND WILDLIFE CODE
TITLE 5. WILDLIFE AND PLANT CONSERVATION
SUBTITLE A. HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES
CHAPTER 43. SPECIAL LICENSES AND PERMITS
SUBCHAPTER G. PERMITS TO MANAGE WILDLIFE AND EXOTIC ANIMALS FROM AIRCRAFT

(a) For purposes of this subchapter, a person commits an offense if that person:

(1) hunts or kills, or attempts to hunt or kill, from an aircraft any animal or bird that is not specifically authorized by a permit issued under this subchapter;

(2) uses an aircraft to manage wildlife or exotic animals without first obtaining and having in the person's immediate possession a permit and a landowner's authorization for the management of wildlife or exotic animals by the use of aircraft; or

(3) uses an aircraft to harass wildlife, exotic animals, or any other animal or bird.

(b) It is a defense to prosecution for harassment of wildlife or exotic animals under this section if the person is engaged in the activity of counting, photographing, relocating, capturing, or hunting wildlife or exotic animals under the authority of a permit under this subchapter.

Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 969, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

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