(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 Permits), no person may hunt white-tailed deer, mule deer, desert bighorn sheep, or pronghorn 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.31 Tex. Admin. Code § 65.24
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 by Texas Register, Volume 41, Number 33, August 12, 2016, TexReg 6057, eff. 9/1/2016; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 42, Number 26, June 30, 2017, TexReg 3398, eff. 7/9/2017; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 29, July 17, 2020, TexReg 5008, eff. 9/1/2020; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 32, August 9, 2024, TexReg 6006, eff. 8/11/2024