Texas Agriculture Code Title 6, Chapter 143 - Fences; Range Restrictions
SUBCHAPTER A FENCING OF CULTIVATED LAND
- Texas Section 143.001 - Sufficient Fence Required
Except as provided by this chapter for an area in which a local option stock law has been adopted, each gardener or farmer shall make...
- Texas Section 143.002 - Gate
A person may not build, join, or maintain around cleared land in cultivation more than three miles lineal measure of fence running the same general...
SUBCHAPTER B LOCAL OPTION TO PREVENT CERTAIN ANIMALS FROM RUNNING AT LARGE
- Texas Section 143.003 - Cattle On County Road With Cattle Guard
Cattle on a county road are not considered to be running at large if the county road: (1) separates two tracts of land under common...
- Texas Section 143.021 - Petition For Election
(a) In accordance with this section, the freeholders of a county or an area within a county may petition the commissioners court to conduct an...
- Texas Section 143.022 - Election Orders
(a) After receiving a petition under this subchapter, the commissioners court at its next regular term shall order that an election be held throughout the...
- Texas Section 143.023 - Election
(a) If the election is not countywide, the county judge at the time the election order is issued shall appoint election officers for the election....
- Texas Section 143.024 - Effect Of Election; Adoption Of Subchapter
(a) If a majority of the votes in an election are cast against the proposition, this subchapter is adopted and, after the 30th day following...
- Texas Section 143.025 - Subsequent Elections To Adopt Subchapter
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, if this subchapter is not adopted at an election, another election for that purpose may...
- Texas Section 143.026 - Repeal
(a) The freeholders of a county or an area in which this subchapter has been adopted may petition the commissioners court to conduct an election...
- Texas Section 143.027 - Extension Of Subchapter To Adjoining Area By Order
A commissioners court by order shall extend application of this subchapter to territory that is between two areas of the county that have adopted this...
- Texas Section 143.028 - Fences
(a) A person is not required to fence against animals that are not permitted to run at large. Except as otherwise provided by this section,...
- Texas Section 143.033 - Injury To Trespassing Animal
If a person whose fence is insufficient under this subchapter maims, wounds, or kills a head of cattle or a horse, mule, jack, jennet, sheep,...
SUBCHAPTER C LOCAL OPTION LIMITED FREE RANGE FOR HOGS
- Texas Section 143.034 - Penalty
(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly: (1) turns out or causes to be turned out on land that does not belong...
- Texas Section 143.051 - Petition For Election
(a) The freeholders of a county or an area that has adopted Subchapter B of this chapter or the freeholders of an area that is...
- Texas Section 143.052 - Election Orders
(a) After receiving a petition under this subchapter, the commissioners court shall order an election to be held throughout the county or in the petitioning...
- Texas Section 143.053 - Election
(a) Except as provided by this section, the election shall be conducted, the returns made, and the results declared in accordance with Section 143.023 of...
- Texas Section 143.054 - Effect Of Election
If a majority of the votes cast are for the limited period of free range for hogs, after the 10th day following the date on...
- Texas Section 143.055 - Subsequent Elections To Adopt Or Repeal Free Range
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, if an election is held under this subchapter another election for the purpose of adopting...
SUBCHAPTER D LOCAL OPTION TO PREVENT CATTLE OR DOMESTIC TURKEYS FROM RUNNING AT LARGE
- Texas Section 143.056 - Combined Elections
An election under this subchapter may be held at the same time as an election under Subchapter B of this chapter, but the propositions must...
- Texas Section 143.071 - Petition For Election
(a) In accordance with this section, the freeholders of a county or an area within a county may petition commissioners court to conduct an election...
- Texas Section 143.072 - Exceptions; Countywide Elections
The following counties may not conduct a countywide election on the running at large of cattle: Andrews, Coke, Culberson, Hardin, Hemphill, Hudspeth, Jasper, Jefferson, Kenedy,...
- Texas Section 143.073 - Election
(a) Except as provided by this section, the election is governed by Sections 143.022 and 143.023 of this code. (b) The ballot shall be printed...
- Texas Section 143.074 - Effect Of Election; Adoption Of Subchapter
(a) If a majority of the votes cast in an election are for the proposition, this subchapter is adopted and, after the 30th day following...
- Texas Section 143.075 - Subsequent Elections To Adopt Subchapter
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, if this subchapter is not adopted at an election, no other election for that purpose...
- Texas Section 143.076 - Repeal
(a) In accordance with this section, the freeholders of a county or an area in which this subchapter has been adopted may petition the commissioners...
- Texas Section 143.077 - Fences
A fence is sufficient for purposes of this chapter if it is sufficient to keep out the classes of animals not affected by this subchapter....
SUBCHAPTER E ANIMALS RUNNING AT LARGE ON HIGHWAYS
- Texas Section 143.082 - Penalty
(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly permits a head of cattle or a domestic turkey to run at large in a...
- Texas Section 143.101 - Definition
In this subchapter, "highway" means a U.S. highway or a state highway in this state, but does not include a numbered farm-to-market road. The term...
- Texas Section 143.102 - Running At Large On Highway Prohibited
A person who owns or has responsibility for the control of a horse, mule, donkey, cow, bull, steer, hog, sheep, or goat may not knowingly...
- Texas Section 143.103 - Immunity From Liability
A person whose vehicle strikes, kills, injures, or damages an unattended animal running at large on a highway is not liable for damages to the...
- Texas Section 143.104 - Herding Of Livestock Along Highway
This subchapter does not prevent the movement of livestock from one location to another by herding, leading, or driving the livestock on, along, or across...
- Texas Section 143.106 - Enforcement
Each state highway patrolman or county or local law enforcement officer shall enforce this subchapter and may enforce it without the use of a written...
- Texas Section 143.107 - Conflict With Other Law
This subchapter prevails to the extent of any conflict with another provision of this chapter. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1350, ch. 388, Sec. 1,...
SUBCHAPTER F REMOVAL OF ADJOINING FENCES
- Texas Section 143.108 - Penalty
(a) A person commits an offense if the person violates Section 143.102 of this code. (b) An offense under this section is a Class C...
- Texas Section 143.121 - Prohibition
Except as provided by this subchapter or by mutual consent of the parties, a person may not remove a fence that is: (1) a separating...
- Texas Section 143.122 - Removal Of Fence By Owner
A person who owns an interest in a fence attached to a fence owned in whole or in part by another person is entitled to...
- Texas Section 143.123 - Requiring Removal Of Fence By Another Person
A person who is the owner of a fence that is wholly on that person's land may require the owner of an attached fence to...
Last modified: September 28, 2016