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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to notice prohibiting hunting on or over certain submerged |
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land. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 62.0061(a), Parks and Wildlife Code, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person may not |
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hunt or take any wild animal or wild bird when the person is on or |
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over privately owned land that is: |
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(1) submerged under: |
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(A) public fresh water due to seasonal or |
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occasional innundation; or |
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(B) public salt water and located above the mean |
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high tide line of the Gulf of Mexico and its bays and estuaries; and |
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(2) conspicuously marked as privately owned by: |
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(A) a vertical purple line, at least eight inches |
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in length and one inch in width, painted on trees or posts on the |
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property so as to be readily visible to a person accessing the |
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property when the property is submerged by water; or |
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(B) a sign or signs that are substantially |
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similar to the following: |
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POSTED. PRIVATE PROPERTY. NO HUNTING. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |