Section 62.0061 - Hunting on or Over Certain Submerged Land(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person may not hunt or take any wild animal or wild bird when the person is on or over privately owned land that is: (1) submerged under: (A) public fresh water due to seasonal or occasional innundation; or(B) public salt water and located above the mean high tide line of the Gulf of Mexico and its bays and estuaries; and(2) conspicuously marked as privately owned by a sign or signs that are substantially similar to the following: POSTED. PRIVATE PROPERTY. NO HUNTING.
(b) This section does not apply to:(1) fishing or to fish and other aquatic life;(2) a person who: (A) owns the submerged land; or(B) obtains the landowner's consent;(3) land that is dedicated to the permanent school fund and that is located within: (A) the tidewater limits of this state; or(B) the gradient boundaries of a navigable river or stream in this state; or(4) land that is: (A) submerged by public water; and(B) located below the mean high tide line of the Gulf of Mexico and its bays and estuaries.(c) This section does not authorize a person to fish by any means or method or at any time or place that is otherwise prohibited by this code.Tex. Parks and Wild. § 62.0061
Renumbered from Parks and Wildlife Code, Section 62.002 by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 921, Sec. 17.001(60), eff. 9/1/2007.Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1002, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2005.