By: Krause (Senate Sponsor - Perry) H.B. No. 2238
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2021;
May 10, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Water,
Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 19, 2021, reported favorably by
the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2021, sent to
printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to notice prohibiting hunting on or over certain submerged
land.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 62.0061(a), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(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) a vertical purple line, at least eight inches
in length and one inch in width, painted on trees or posts on the
property so as to be readily visible to a person accessing the
property when the property is submerged by water; or
(B) a sign or signs that are substantially
similar to the following:
POSTED. PRIVATE PROPERTY. NO HUNTING.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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