Tex. Natural Resources Code § 11.074
HERDING AND LINE-RIDING
Texas · Texas Natural Resources Code · Status: effective
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- Tex. Natural Resources Code § 11.074, HERDING AND LINE-RIDING, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/694565
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(a) No owner of stock, manager, agent, employee, or servant may fence, use, occupy, or appropriate by herding or line-riding any portion of the public land of the state or land which belongs to the public schools or asylums unless he obtains a lease for the land from the proper authority.
(b) Any owner of stock or his manager, agent, employee, or servant who fences, uses, occupies, or appropriates by herding or line-riding any portion of the land covered by Subsection (a) of this section without a lease for the land, on conviction, shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 and confined in the county jail for not less than three months nor more than two years. Each day for which a violation continues constitutes a separate offense.
(c) Prosecution under this section may take place in the county in which a portion of the land is located or to which the county may be attached for judicial purposes or in Travis County.