- (a) No person may take, sell, purchase, or possess a fur-bearing animal, pelt, or carcass in this state, except as provided by proclamation of the commission. This chapter does not prohibit a landowner or his agent from taking a fur-bearing animal causing depredation on that person's land. No person may possess a fur-bearing animal taken for depredation purposes except as authorized by proclamation of the commission.
- (b) No person may take a fur-bearing animal on any privately owned land or body of water unless the owner of the land or water, or the owner's agent, consents.
Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1975.
Amended by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 2737, ch. 748, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.