Section 11.074 - Herding and Line-Riding(a) No owner of stock, manager, agent, employee, or servant may fence, use, occupy, or appropriate by herding or line-riding any portion of the public land of the state or land which belongs to the public schools or asylums unless he obtains a lease for the land from the proper authority.(b) Any owner of stock or his manager, agent, employee, or servant who fences, uses, occupies, or appropriates by herding or line-riding any portion of the land covered by Subsection (a) of this section without a lease for the land, on conviction, shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 and confined in the county jail for not less than three months nor more than two years. Each day for which a violation continues constitutes a separate offense.(c) Prosecution under this section may take place in the county in which a portion of the land is located or to which the county may be attached for judicial purposes or in Travis County.Tex. Nat. Res. Code § 11.074
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2353, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1977.