Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 76.038
This is the official text of Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 76.038, part of Texas’s Parks and Wildlife Code — governs state parks, hunting, and fishing.
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§ 76.038. INTERFERENCE WITH BUOYS OR MARKERS.
Official statutory text
(a) No person may deface, injure, destroy, or remove a buoy, marker, or fence used to designate or enclose a private oyster bed or location where oysters have been deposited for preparation for market without the consent of the owner of the bed or location.
(b) No person may deface, injure, destroy, or remove a buoy, marker, or sign of the department used for designating water closed for the taking of fish or oysters without the consent of the department.
(c) Repealed by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 267, art. 3, Sec. 110, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
(b) No person may deface, injure, destroy, or remove a buoy, marker, or sign of the department used for designating water closed for the taking of fish or oysters without the consent of the department.
(c) Repealed by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 267, art. 3, Sec. 110, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Status: repealed · Read it on the official government site
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