PARKS AND WILDLIFE CODE

TITLE 5. WILDLIFE AND PLANT CONSERVATION

SUBTITLE A. HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES

CHAPTER 41. RECIPROCAL HUNTING AND FISHING PRIVILEGES


	§ 41.003.  RECIPROCAL LICENSE AGREEMENTS:  BORDER 
STATES.  (a)  The director shall negotiate for the commission with 
the proper representatives of each state having a common border 
with Texas to allow reciprocal fishing and migratory waterfowl 
hunting on rivers and lakes on the common boundary between Texas and 
the border state.
	(b)  An agreement must provide that a resident of the border 
state who has a sport fishing license or a hunting license issued by 
the border state may fish or hunt migratory waterfowl on rivers and 
lakes of the common border, and a Texas resident holding a Texas 
license is extended equal privileges.  A person who holds a 
nonresident sport fishing license or a nonresident hunting license 
issued by this state or a border state may be extended the same 
privileges as those extended a resident license holder under this 
subsection.

Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1975.  
Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1256, § 25, eff. Sept. 1, 
1997.


	§ 41.004.  RECIPROCAL AGREEMENTS PROCLAIMED.  An 
agreement under Section 41.003 is not effective until the 
commission by proclamation has approved it. 

Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1975.  
Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1256, § 26, eff. Sept. 1, 
1997.


	§ 41.005.  TERMINATION OF RECIPROCAL LICENSE 
AGREEMENT.  An agreement under Section 41.003 of this code may be 
terminated by the commission at any time after 90 days from the day 
notice of the termination is given to each border state that is a 
party to the agreement.

Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1975.           


	§ 41.006.  REGULATIONS FOR RECIPROCAL LICENSE 
AGREEMENTS.  (a)  The commission may make regulations conforming 
to an agreement under Section 41.003 of this code for the 
conservation of fish and wildlife.
	(b)  A regulation may be adopted only at a meeting of the 
commission in Austin, and any interested person is entitled to be 
heard at the meeting.
	(c)  Regulations adopted by the commission or issued by the 
director, when authorized by the commission to issue regulations, 
take effect 20 days after their adoption or issuance or as otherwise 
specified in the regulations.
	(d)  After adoption of a regulation, a copy shall be numbered 
and filed in the office of the commission.  Other copies shall be 
filed with the secretary of state, sent to the county clerk and 
county attorney in each county affected by the regulation, sent to 
the appropriate agency in the border state to which the agreement 
applies, and sent to each employee of the department who performs 
duties in a county affected by the regulation.

Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1975.  
Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1256, § 27, eff. Sept. 1, 
1997.


	§ 41.008.  RECIPROCAL LICENSE AGREEMENTS:  ANY OTHER 
STATE.  The department may agree with any other state to license 
sport hunting and fishing by residents of the other state at the 
same fee as Texas residents are licensed if the other state licenses 
Texas residents at the same fee as residents of the other state are 
licensed.

Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1975.