I can't verify this, but, if true, the Texas legislature just outlawed all hunting with bows, rifles, and shotguns with slugs on rivers statewide.
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Originally posted by Sippy View PostIt is true, largely due to former Game Warden Pete Flores.
Some things people are confused about:
This doesnt include shotguns with bird shot (waterfowl...ect)
This does not impact bowfishing.
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Originally posted by tvc184 View Post
That exemption is not mentioned in the new law. Is it listed in another section?
Except as provided by Subsection (c) [(d)], a person may not discharge a firearm or shoot an arrow from any kind of bow if: (1) the person is located in or on the bed or bank of a navigable river or stream at the time the firearm is discharged or the arrow is shot from the bow; or (2) any portion of the ammunition discharged or arrow shot could physically contact the bed or bank of a navigable river or stream. (c) [(d)] This section does not apply to: (1) an individual acting in the scope of the individual's duties as a peace officer or department employee; (2) the discharge of a shotgun loaded with ammunition that releases only shot when discharged; [or] (3) an individual engaging in fishing using archery equipment, if the individual is in compliance with Subsection (e);
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Originally posted by flywise View PostSo, If my lease has a river running through it i can no longer set up a deer stand on the banks? Is there a distance requirement?
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Originally posted by C.Read View Post
See bold text below
I read that section about five times but was focusing on the underlined new parts of the law where they added the new exemptions of alligators, venomous snakes and non-indigenous rodents.
The shot shell exemption was already there and I read past it.
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Originally posted by flywise View PostSo, If my lease has a river running through it i can no longer set up a deer stand on the banks? Is there a distance requirement?
This if the law:
a person may not discharge a firearm or shoot an arrow from any kind of bow if:
(1) the person is located in or on the bed or bank of a navigable river or stream at the time the firearm is discharged or the arrow is shot from the bow;
I searched river bed, river bank and just bank in the entire Parks and Wildlife Code and could find no definition.
When I teach the Penal Code in the police academy, the rule on definitions is to first look in the section of the law you are reading. It will say, “In this section” this word or phrase means whatever.
If not there, search the actual chapter that the law is in. It will say “In this chapter…..”.
If not there, then you go to the definitions section of the law, which, for the Penal Code is 1.07.
If not there… You go to the dictionary.
Maybe someone is better at searching the TPWD than me, but I couldn’t find a definition. If that is true then it would mean the dictionary definition.
The definitions, I looked up online, say things like the land at the edge of a river, the land along the edge of a river or the slopes leading to a river.
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