| (a) Except as specifically provided in this subchapter,
permits and tags issued under the provisions of this subchapter shall
be issued only to the landowner. Multiple landowners may combine multiple
tracts of land to create an aggregate acreage for issuance of pronghorn
or antlerless mule deer permits; however, tracts of land aggregated
for purposes of antlerless mule deer permit issuance must be contiguous.
(b) Except as provided in §65.29 of this title
(relating to Managed Lands Deer Program or §65.30 of this title
(relating to Pronghorn Antelope Permits), no person may hunt white-tailed
deer, mule deer, desert bighorn sheep, or antelope when a permit or
tag is required unless that person has received from the landowner
and has in possession a valid permit or tag issued by the department.
(c) When a permit or tag is required to hunt or possess
the wildlife resources listed in subsection (b) of this section, it
is unlawful to:
(1) use a permit or tag more than once;
(2) use a permit or tag on a tract of land other than
the tract for which the permit or tag was issued;
(3) falsify or fail to fully complete any information
required by a permit or tag application; or
(4) possess the wildlife resource without attaching
a valid, properly executed permit or tag, except as may be otherwise
provided in this subchapter, which shall remain attached until the
wildlife resource reaches its final destination.
(d) All applications for issuance of pronghorn permits
or antlerless mule deer permits shall be submitted electronically
via a department system designated for that purpose on or before the
deadline specified in this subsection. The deadline for submission
of applications for:
(1) pronghorn permits is July 1; and
(2) antlerless mule deer permits is September 1.
(e) A landowner to whom a pronghorn or antlerless mule
deer permit is issued shall maintain a legible daily harvest log on
a tract of land for which the permit is issued.
(1) The daily harvest log shall be on a form provided
or approved by the department and shall be maintained by the landowner
until the last day of permit validity.
(2) A person who kills a pronghorn or antlerless mule
deer that is required by a provision of this subchapter to be tagged
shall, on the same day that the pronghorn or antlerless mule deer
is killed, legibly enter the required information in the daily harvest
log.
(A) The daily harvest log shall contain the following
information for each pronghorn or antlerless mule deer killed on the
enrolled tract of land:
(i) the name and customer or driver's license number
of the person who killed the pronghorn or antlerless mule deer;
(ii) the date the pronghorn or antlerless mule deer
was killed;
(iii) the location where the pronghorn or antlerless
mule deer was killed; and
(iv) the pronghorn or antlerless mule deer permit number
of the permit affixed to the pronghorn or antlerless mule deer, as
appropriate.
(B) The daily harvest log shall be made available to
any department employee acting in the performance of official duties
upon request.
(f) A person to whom the department has issued pronghorn
or antlerless mule deer permits shall submit a harvest report electronically
via a department system designated for that purpose.
(1) For pronghorn, the harvest report shall be submitted
by no later than October 31 of the year of permit issuance. The report
shall contain the number of buck and/or doe pronghorn killed in addition
to any other information required by the department.
(2) For antlerless mule deer, the harvest report shall
be submitted by no later than January 15 of the year following the
year of permit issuance. The report shall contain the number of antlerless
mule deer killed in addition to any other information required by
the department.
(g) No state-issued permit is required to hunt antlerless
white-tailed deer on a National Wildlife Refuge.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §65.24 adopted to be effective September 1, 1996, 21 TexReg 5303; amended to be effective July 14, 1997, 22 TexReg 6308; amended to be effective August 20, 1998, 23 TexReg 8450; amended to be effective July 10, 2005, 30 TexReg 3997; amended to be effective September 1, 2006, 31 TexReg 5342; amended to be effective September 1, 2016, 41 TexReg 6052; amended to be effective July 9, 2017, 42 TexReg 3397; amended to be effective September 1, 2020, 45 TexReg 5008 |
