31 Tex. Admin. Code § 65.24 - Permits
(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.
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