Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 12.017
This is the official text of Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 12.017, part of Texas’s Parks and Wildlife Code — governs state parks, hunting, and fishing.
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§ 12.017. DAMAGING MARKERS.
Official statutory text
(a) No person may damage, deface, destroy, or remove, tie up a boat to, or in any way render inoperative or ineffective a marker, buoy, light or sound signal, radar reflector, or daymark or any part of these devices, including the attachment intended to hold the device in place.
(b) The fact that a device or part of a device specified in Subsection (a) of this section may have been established by the state in water adjacent to but outside the territorial water of the state is not a defense against a prosecution for damaging state property.
(b) The fact that a device or part of a device specified in Subsection (a) of this section may have been established by the state in water adjacent to but outside the territorial water of the state is not a defense against a prosecution for damaging state property.
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