Texas Parks and Wildlife Code - PARKS & WILD § 42.005. Nonresident License Required

(a) No nonresident in this state may hunt a mule deer, white-tailed deer, turkey, pronghorn antelope, desert bighorn sheep, or alligator in this state without first having acquired a nonresident general hunting license.

(b) Except as provided by Subsection (f), no nonresident may hunt any bird or animal in this state without first having acquired a nonresident general hunting license or a nonresident five-day hunting license.

(c) A nonresident possessing a valid nonresident trapper's license is not required to have a license issued under this section to take or possess the species governed by the license.

(d) Repealed by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., ch. 312 (S.B. 1247), § 7(1), eff. Sept. 1, 2025.

(e) A nonresident may not acquire or possess during a license year more than one nonresident general hunting license.

(f) A nonresident landowner or any person, with the consent of the landowner, may take feral hogs on the nonresident landowner's land without having acquired a hunting license required by this chapter.