CHAPTER 41. RECIPROCAL HUNTING AND FISHING PRIVILEGES
PARKS AND WILDLIFE CODE
TITLE 5. WILDLIFE AND PLANT CONSERVATION
SUBTITLE A. HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES
CHAPTER 41. RECIPROCAL HUNTING AND FISHING PRIVILEGES
Sec. 41.003. RECIPROCAL LICENSE AGREEMENTS: BORDER STATES. (a)
The director shall negotiate for the commission with the proper
representatives of each state having a common border with Texas
to allow reciprocal fishing and migratory waterfowl hunting on
rivers and lakes on the common boundary between Texas and the
border state.
(b) An agreement must provide that a resident of the border
state who has a sport fishing license or a hunting license issued
by the border state may fish or hunt migratory waterfowl on
rivers and lakes of the common border, and a Texas resident
holding a Texas license is extended equal privileges. A person
who holds a nonresident sport fishing license or a nonresident
hunting license issued by this state or a border state may be
extended the same privileges as those extended a resident license
holder under this subsection.
Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
1975. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1256, Sec. 25, eff.
Sept. 1, 1997.
Sec. 41.004. RECIPROCAL AGREEMENTS PROCLAIMED. An agreement
under Section 41.003 is not effective until the commission by
proclamation has approved it.
Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
1975. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1256, Sec. 26, eff.
Sept. 1, 1997.
Sec. 41.005. TERMINATION OF RECIPROCAL LICENSE AGREEMENT. An
agreement under Section 41.003 of this code may be terminated by
the commission at any time after 90 days from the day notice of
the termination is given to each border state that is a party to
the agreement.
Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
1975.
Sec. 41.006. REGULATIONS FOR RECIPROCAL LICENSE AGREEMENTS. (a)
The commission may make regulations conforming to an agreement
under Section 41.003 of this code for the conservation of fish
and wildlife.
(b) A regulation may be adopted only at a meeting of the
commission in Austin, and any interested person is entitled to be
heard at the meeting.
(c) Regulations adopted by the commission or issued by the
director, when authorized by the commission to issue regulations,
take effect 20 days after their adoption or issuance or as
otherwise specified in the regulations.
(d) After adoption of a regulation, a copy shall be numbered and
filed in the office of the commission. Other copies shall be
filed with the secretary of state, sent to the county clerk and
county attorney in each county affected by the regulation, sent
to the appropriate agency in the border state to which the
agreement applies, and sent to each employee of the department
who performs duties in a county affected by the regulation.
Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
1975. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1256, Sec. 27, eff.
Sept. 1, 1997.
Sec. 41.008. RECIPROCAL LICENSE AGREEMENTS: ANY OTHER STATE.
The department may agree with any other state to license sport
hunting and fishing by residents of the other state at the same
fee as Texas residents are licensed if the other state licenses
Texas residents at the same fee as residents of the other state
are licensed.
Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
1975.