Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 12.308
This is the official text of Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 12.308, part of Texas’s Parks and Wildlife Code — governs state parks, hunting, and fishing.
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§ 12.308. CERTAIN COSTS RECOVERABLE.
Official statutory text
(a) The actual cost of investigation, reasonable attorney's fees, and reasonable expert witness fees incurred by the department in a civil suit under this subchapter may be recovered in addition to damages for the value of any fish, shellfish, reptile, amphibian, bird, or animal unlawfully killed, caught, taken, possessed, or injured.
(b) Any amounts recovered under this section shall be credited to the same operating accounts from which the expenditures occurred.
(b) Any amounts recovered under this section shall be credited to the same operating accounts from which the expenditures occurred.
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