
§ 11.074. HERDING AND LINE-RIDING.  (a) No owner of 
stock, manager, agent, employee, or servant may fence, use, occupy, 
or appropriate by herding or line-riding any portion of the public 
land of the state or land which belongs to the public schools or 
asylums unless he obtains a lease for the land from the proper 
authority.
	(b)  Any owner of stock or his manager, agent, employee, or 
servant who fences, uses, occupies, or appropriates by herding or 
line-riding any portion of the land covered by Subsection (a) of 
this section without a lease for the land, on conviction, shall be 
fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 and confined in the 
county jail for not less than three months nor more than two years.  
Each day for which a violation continues constitutes a separate 
offense.
	(c)  Prosecution under this section may take place in the 
county in which a portion of the land is located or to which the 
county may be attached for judicial purposes or in Travis County.

Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2353, ch. 871, art. I, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 
1977.

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