Texas Administrative Code › Title 31 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION › Part 2 - TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT › Chapter 65 - WILDLIFE › Subchapter A - STATEWIDE HUNTING PROCLAMATION › Division 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 65.10 - Possession of Wildlife Resources

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) For all
					 wildlife resources taken for which there is a possession limit, the possession
					 limit shall not apply after the wildlife resource has reached the possessor's
					 permanent residence and is finally processed.
(b) Under authority of Parks and Wildlife
					 Code, §
											42.0177, the
					 tagging requirements of Parks and Wildlife Code, §
											42.018, are
					 modified as follows.
(1) At a final
					 destination other than a cold storage or processing facility required to
					 maintain a cold storage record book under the provisions of this subchapter,
					 tagging requirements for a carcass cease when the forequarters, hindquarters,
					 and back straps have been completely severed from the carcass.
(2) At a Type 1 commercial cold storage or
					 processing facility, tagging requirements for a carcass cease when:
(A) the information required by Parks and
					 Wildlife Code, §
													62.029,
					 has been entered into the cold storage record book; and
(B) for each carcass entered into the cold
					 storage record book, the harvest location required to be indicated on a tag or
					 WRD (the county where the deer was harvested and the name of the ranch or
					 property where the deer was harvested) has been recorded by the proprietor or
					 agent of the facility.
(C) The
					 information required by subparagraph (B) of this paragraph may be combined with
					 or appended to the information required to be entered into the cold storage
					 record book or may be maintained separately.
(D) After being detached from a carcass, a
					 tag or WRD, as applicable, shall be retained at the premises of the cold
					 storage or processing facility for as long as the carcass or any part of the
					 carcass remains in the possession of the cold storage or processing
					 facility.
(3) At a Type 2
					 commercial cold storage or processing facility tagging requirements for a
					 carcass cease when:
(A) the forequarters,
					 hindquarters, and back straps have been completely severed from the carcass;
					 and
(B) the information required
					 under Parks and Wildlife Code, §
													62.029,
					 has been entered into the cold storage record book that the cold storage or
					 processing facility is required to maintain.
(C) After the information required under
					 Parks and Wildlife Code, §
													62.029,
					 has been entered into the cold storage record book, a carcass may be taken
					 beyond quarters.
(4) At a
					 private noncommercial cold storage processing facility as defined in Parks and
					 Wildlife Code, §
												62.029,
					 where a cold storage record book is maintained, carcass tagging and
					 proof-of-sex requirements cease and the carcass may be taken beyond quarters
					 when the required information has been entered in the cold storage record
					 book.
(5) Except as provided in
					 paragraph (3) of this subsection, the tagging requirements for deer and turkey
					 taken under a digital license issued under the provisions of §
												53.3(a)(12) of
					 this title (relating to Super Combination Hunting and Fishing License
					 Packages), under the digital tagging option of §53.4 of this title
					 (relating to Lifetime Licenses), and §
												53.5(a)(3) of
					 this title (relating to Recreational Hunting License, Stamps, and Tags) are
					 prescribed in subsection (e) of this section.
(6) A person who has purchased a digital
					 license identified in §53.4 of this title and selected the fulfilment of
					 physical tags must comply with the tagging requirements of Parks and Wildlife
					 Code, Chapter 42, and this chapter that are applicable to the tagging of deer
					 and turkey under a license that is not a digital license.