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Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 62.104: SEIZURE OF DANGEROUS WILD ANIMAL OR CARCASS, HIDE, PART OR PRODUCT.
Where this section sits in the code
- PARKS AND WILDLIFE CODE
- TITLE 5. WILDLIFE AND PLANT CONSERVATION
- SUBTITLE B. HUNTING AND FISHING
- CHAPTER 62. PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO HUNTING
- SUBCHAPTER F. UNLAWFUL CONTROLLED KILLING OF OR ATTEMPTING TO INJURE DANGEROUS WILD ANIMALS
(a) A peace officer may seize a live dangerous wild animal or a carcass, hide, or part of or a product made from a dangerous wild animal if the officer has probable cause to believe that the live animal, carcass, hide, part, or product possessed by a person was killed, wounded, or injured in, or obtained as a result of, a controlled kill prohibited by Section 62.102(1).
(b) The commission shall adopt rules for the final disposition of a carcass, hide, part, product, or live animal seized under this section.
(c) The department, a game warden, or other department employee authorized to act under this section is immune from criminal or civil liability and from prosecution or civil suit for a seizure conducted under this section or rules adopted under this section.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 23, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
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