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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the requirement to keep records of game bird or animal |
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carcasses placed in a cold storage or processing facility. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 42.001(8), Parks and Wildlife Code, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(8) "Quartering" means the processing of an animal |
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into not more than two hindquarters each having the leg bone (femur) |
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attached down to the knee [hock] and two front shoulders |
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[forequarters] each having the leg bones (scapula and humerus) |
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[portion to the knee] attached down to the elbow [shoulder blade]. |
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The term also includes removal of two back straps [and trimmings
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from the neck and rib cage]. |
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SECTION 2. Sections 62.029, Parks and Wildlife Code, is |
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amended by amending Subsections (a) and (f) and adding Subsection |
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(g) to read as follows: |
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(a) In [As used in] this section: |
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(1) "Carcass" has the meaning assigned by Section |
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42.001. |
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(2) "Cold[, "cold] storage or processing facility" has |
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the meaning assigned by Section 42.001. |
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(3) "Hunting lease" has the meaning assigned by |
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Section 43.041. |
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(4) "Public cold storage or processing facility" means |
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a commercial cold storage or processing facility that is in the |
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business of storing or processing game animals or game birds for the |
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public. |
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(5) "Quartering" has the meaning assigned by Section |
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42.001. |
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(f) This section does not apply to a private, noncommercial, |
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family-owned cold storage or processing facility unless the |
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facility is located on a hunting lease. |
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(g) This section does not require the entry or maintenance |
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of a record for the carcass of a deer or antelope that is properly |
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tagged unless the carcass is placed in a public cold storage or |
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processing facility. |
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SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. |
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An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is |
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covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and the |
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former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of |
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this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of |
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this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date. |
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SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |