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TITLE 31NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
PART 2TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 65WILDLIFE
SUBCHAPTER CPERMITS FOR TRAPPING, TRANSPORTING, AND TRANSPLANTING GAME ANIMALS AND GAME BIRDS
RULE §65.111Permit Conditions and Period of Validity

(a) The department may place limitations on the hunting or taking of game animals or game birds at a release site that the department deems necessary to facilitate or enhance the establishment of a sustainable population.

(b) A permittee may distribute the cost of permitted activities by entering into cost-sharing agreements with other parties involved, but such cost-sharing arrangements shall not violate the provisions of §65.117 of this title (relating to Prohibited Acts).

(c) If it is determined by the department that any condition listed on the permit has been violated, the department may suspend the permit after notifying the supervisory permittee that a violation has occurred. All contested cases shall be conducted pursuant to the provisions of Government Code, Chapter 2001.

(d) With the exception of permits to trap, transport, and process surplus white-tailed deer where deer at the trap site pose a threat to human health and safety, permits issued pursuant to this subchapter shall expire at the end of the specified trapping period for that species. The maximum period of validity for a permit issued under this subchapter shall not exceed one year.

(e) Unattended trapping equipment and devices at trap sites within incorporated areas shall be labeled with the owner's name, complete address, and telephone number; the date of trap site establishment; and the date the trap site was last visited.

(f) Unattended trap sites that may pose a human health and safety hazard shall be clearly marked as such.


Source Note: The provisions of this §65.111 adopted to be effective December 1, 1995, 20 TexReg 9569; amended to be effective November 7, 2000, 25 TexReg 10922; amended to be effective August 15, 2001, 26 TexReg 6024; amended to be effective October 21, 2003, 28 TexReg 9079; amended to be effective March 14, 2021, 46 TexReg 1496

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