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

Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 43.601: PERMIT FOR DEER MANAGEMENT.

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  1. PARKS AND WILDLIFE CODE
  2. TITLE 5. WILDLIFE AND PLANT CONSERVATION
  3. SUBTITLE A. HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES
  4. CHAPTER 43. SPECIAL LICENSES AND PERMITS
  5. SUBCHAPTER R. WHITE-TAILED DEER MANAGEMENT PERMITS

(a) The department may issue a permit for the management of the wild white-tailed deer population on acreage enclosed by a fence capable of retaining white-tailed deer (under reasonable and ordinary circumstances) and capable of preventing entry by a white-tailed deer.

(b) The deer managed under the permit remain the property of the people of the state, and the holder of the permit is considered to be managing the population on behalf of the state.

(c) If a special season with a special bag limit is established by the commission for holders of a deer management permit, the holder of the permit may not receive compensation for granting any other person permission to kill a wild deer during that special season on the acreage covered by the permit.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1256, Sec. 47, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1265, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

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