Texas Register, Volume 47, Number 7, Pages 715-820, February 18, 2022 Page: 741
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(23) [(24-)] Lawful archery equipment--Longbow, recurved
bow, compound bow, and crossbow.
(24) [(22)] License year--The period of time for which an
annual hunting license is valid.
(25) [(23-)] Muzzleloader--Any firearm designed such that
the propellant and bullet or projectile can be loaded only through the
muzzle.
(26) [(24)] Permanent residence--One's domicile. This
does not include a temporary abode or dwelling such as a hunting/fish-
ing club, or any club house, cabin, tent, or trailer house used as a
hunting/fishing club, or any hotel, motel, or rooming house used
during a hunting, fishing, pleasure, or business trip.
(27) [(25-)] Possession limit--The maximum number of a
wildlife resource that may be lawfully possessed at one time.
(28) [(26)] Pre-charged pneumatic--An air gun or arrow
gun for which the propellant is supplied or introduced by means of a
source that is physically separate from the air gun or arrow gun.
(29) [(27)] Pronghorn--A pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra
americana).
(30) [(28-)] Silencer or sound-suppressing device--Any de-
vice that reduces the normal noise level created when the firearm is
discharged or fired.
(31) [(29)] Spike-buck deer--A buck deer with no antler
having more than one point.
(32) [(3-0)] Unbranched antler--An antler having no more
than one antler point.
(33) [(-34)] Unbranched antlered deer--A buck deer having
at least one unbranched antler.
(34) [(32)] Upper-limb disability--A permanent loss of the
use of fingers, hand or arm in a manner that renders a person incapable
of using a longbow, compound bow or recurved bow.
(35) [(3-3)] (33) Wildlife resources--Alligators, all game
animals, and all game birds.
(36) [(34)] (34) Wounded deer--A deer leaving a blood
trail.
65.10. Possession of Wildlife Resources.
(a) For all wildlife resources taken [for pesena ons-umptin
and] 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 modi-
fied 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 [Parks and Wildlife Code-
62-29-] tagging requirements for a carcass cease when the forequar-
ters, hindquarters, and back straps have been completely severed from
the carcass.
(2) At a Type 1 commercial cold storage or processing fa-
cility, 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.
_() [(2)] At a Type 2 commercial cold storage or process-
ing facility [required to maintain a el storage record book under the
pro vsions of Parks and Wildlife Cede- 62-9] 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 fa-
cility as defined in Parks and Wildlife Code, 62.029, where a cold
storage record book is maintained, carcass tagging and proof-of-sex re-
quirements cease and the carcass may be taken beyond quarters when
the required information has been entered in the cold storage record
book.
-) [(-)] Except as provided in paragraph (3) [(4)] 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)
or under the digital tagging option of 53.4(a)(1) of this title (relating
to Lifetime Licenses) are prescribed in subsection (e) of this section.
(6) [(4)] A person who has purchased a digital license iden-
tified in 53.4(a)(1) 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.
(5) The provisions of this subsection de not modify er
eliminate any requirement of this subehapter er the Parks and Wi-dlife
Cede applicable to a eareass before it is at a final destination-}
(c) - (e) (No change.)
(f) Proof of sex for deer and pronghorn [antelope] must remain
with the carcass until tagging requirements cease.
(1) Proof of sex for deer consists of:
(A) buck:
(i) the head, with antlers still attached; or
(ii) the tail and unskinned skull cap with antlers at-
tached; and
f(A) bumlk the heads with antlers sti44 atta hed; and
(B) antlerless:
(i) the head; orPROPOSED RULES February 18, 2022 47 TexReg 741
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