Texas Parks And Wildlife Code Title 5, Chapter 44 - Game Breeder's License

• Texas Section 44.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Game breeder" means a person holding a valid game breeder's license. (2) "Captivity" means the keeping of game animals in an...
• Texas Section 44.002 - License Requirement
  No person may sell, place in captivity, or engage in the business of propagating any game animal of this state unless the person has obtained...
• Texas Section 44.003 - Game Breeder's License
  The department shall issue a game breeder's license on payment of a license fee of $10 or an amount set by the commission, whichever amount...
• Texas Section 44.004 - Reissuance Of License
  A game breeder's license may not be issued to a previous licensee unless the licensee has filed with the department a copy of the record...
• Texas Section 44.005 - Serial Number
  (a) The department shall issue a serial number to the applicant at the time of the first issuance of a game breeder's license to the...
• Texas Section 44.006 - License Privileges
  The holder of a valid game breeder's license may: (1) engage in the business of game breeding in the immediate locality for which the license...
• Texas Section 44.007 - Records
  (a) Each game breeder shall keep a written record in a suitably bound book for the period from August 1 until the following July 31...
• Texas Section 44.008 - Enclosure Size
  A single enclosure for any game animal may not contain more than 320 acres. Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff....
• Texas Section 44.009 - Inspection
  An authorized employee of the department may inspect at any time and without warrant any pen, coop, or enclosure holding a game animal. Acts 1975,...
• Texas Section 44.010 - Shipment Of Game Animals
  (a) A common carrier may not accept a live game animal unless the game animal is one listed in Section 44.006(2) of this code and...
• Texas Section 44.011 - Purchase And Sale Of Live Game Animals
  (a) Only game animals that are in a healthy condition may be sold, bartered, or exchanged, or offered for sale, barter, or exchange by a...
• Texas Section 44.012 - Sale During Open Season
  A game animal held under the authority of a license issued under this subchapter may not be sold, traded, transferred, or shipped to any person...
• Texas Section 44.0125 - Prohibited Acts
  It is an offense if: (1) a licensed game breeder takes, traps, or captures or attempts to take or capture game animals from the wild;...
• Texas Section 44.013 - Use Of Purchased Game Animals
  (a) Except as provided in Subsection (b) of this section, game animals listed in Subdivision (2) of Section 44.006 of this code may be purchased...
• Texas Section 44.014 - Application Of General Laws
  In order that native game species may be preserved, game animals held under a game breeder's license are subject to all laws and regulations of...
• Texas Section 44.015 - Right Of Department
  The department or an authorized employee of the department may take, possess, hold, transport, or propagate any game animal of this state for public purposes....
• Texas Section 44.016 - Penalties
  A person who violates a provision of this chapter commits an offense that is a Class C Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor. Acts 1975, 64th...

Last modified: September 28, 2016