Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 63.001
This is the official text of Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 63.001, part of Texas’s Parks and Wildlife Code — governs state parks, hunting, and fishing.
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§ 63.001. GAME ANIMALS.
Official statutory text
(a) The following animals are game animals: mule deer, white-tailed deer, pronghorn antelope, desert bighorn sheep, gray or cat squirrels, fox squirrels or red squirrels, and collared peccary or javelina.
(b) No species of any animal set out in Subsection (a) of this section or any other animal is a game animal if it is not indigenous to this state.
(c), (d) Repealed by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 863, Sec. 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
(b) No species of any animal set out in Subsection (a) of this section or any other animal is a game animal if it is not indigenous to this state.
(c), (d) Repealed by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 863, Sec. 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Status: repealed · Read it on the official government site
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