Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 136.012
This is the official text of Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 136.012, part of Texas’s Parks and Wildlife Code — governs state parks, hunting, and fishing.
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§ 136.012. SHOOTING IN CERTAIN PLACES.
Official statutory text
(a) No person may shoot a pistol or rifle in, on, along, or across the water of the Trinity River, Wallisville Reservoir, and Lake Anahuac in Chambers County.
(b) No person may shoot a pistol, crossbow, bow and arrow, shotgun, or rifle in, on, along, or across the water of Oyster Bayou in Chambers County from State Highway 65 south to the mouth of Oyster Bayou in East Bay.
(c) The water described in Subsections (a) and (b) of this section are part of the public fresh water of this state suited and adapted to the preservation, protection, and propagation of game and fish, and this section is to aid in the preservation, protection, and propagation of game and fish.
(b) No person may shoot a pistol, crossbow, bow and arrow, shotgun, or rifle in, on, along, or across the water of Oyster Bayou in Chambers County from State Highway 65 south to the mouth of Oyster Bayou in East Bay.
(c) The water described in Subsections (a) and (b) of this section are part of the public fresh water of this state suited and adapted to the preservation, protection, and propagation of game and fish, and this section is to aid in the preservation, protection, and propagation of game and fish.
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