Jurisdiction for Swine - Authorized Removal - Texas

A qualified landowner or landowner's agent, as determined by commission rule, may contract to participate as a hunter or observer in using a helicopter to take depredating feral hogs or coyotes under the authority of a permit issued under this subchapter.

Citation: V.T.C.A., Parks & Wildlife Code § 43.1075.

Nothing in this subchapter prevents a landowner or the landowner's agent or lessee from taking depredating feral hogs on the landowner's land without having acquired a permit under this subchapter.

Citation: V.T.C.A., Parks & Wildlife Code § 43.158.

(a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (c) of this section, no resident may hunt any bird or animal in this state without having acquired a hunting license.

(b) A resident possessing a valid resident trapper's license or fur-bearing animal propagation permit is not required to have a license issued under this section to take or possess the species covered by the license or permit.

(c) A resident landowner or the landowner's agent or lessee may take feral hogs causing depredation on the resident landowner's land without having acquired a hunting license.

Citation: V.T.C.A., Parks & Wildlife Code § 42.002.

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(f) A nonresident landowner or the landowner's agent or lessee may take feral hogs causing depredation on the nonresident landowner's land without having acquired a hunting license required by this chapter.

Citation: V.T.C.A., Parks & Wildlife Code § 42.005.