Tex. Parks & Wild. Code Section 66.0091
Fishing in Certain Man-made Waterways


(a)

This section applies to a county in which at least 60 percent of the total area of the county is regularly covered by water and in which the majority of the total area of a wildlife refuge for species of wildlife on the federal endangered species list is located.

(b)

No person may take or attempt to take fish of any variety by the use of nets, except hand-cast nets or minnow seines, from any canal or other artificial or man-made waterway within any platted subdivision platted under Chapter 231, Acts of the 40th Legislature, Regular Session, 1927 (Article 974a, Vernon’s Texas Civil Statutes), if two or more residences abut onto the canal or waterway.

(c)

No person may set any net in the mouth of a canal or waterway described in this section that interferes with or impedes the free movement of fish into or out of the canal or waterway.
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 635, Sec. 1, eff. June 19, 1987.

Source: Section 66.0091 — Fishing in Certain Man-made Waterways, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/PW/htm/PW.­66.­htm#66.­0091 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).

66.001
Definitions
66.002
Consent to Take Fish from Private Water
66.003
Placing Explosives or Harmful Substances in Water
66.004
Taking of Fish by Electric Shock Prohibited
66.005
Wilful Destruction of Boat, Seine, or Net
66.006
Possession of Illegal Fishing Devices
66.007
Exotic Harmful or Potentially Harmful Fish and Shellfish
66.008
Fishing from Bridge
66.009
Navigation Districts
66.011
Leaving Fish to Die
66.012
Penalties
66.013
Federal Grants
66.014
Identification of Vehicle Transporting Aquatic Products
66.015
Introduction of Fish, Shellfish, and Aquatic Plants
66.016
Commercial Fishing Regulations Applicable if Commercial Plates on Board
66.017
License, Tag, and Permit Expirations and Transfers
66.018
Crab Trap Tags
66.019
Statistical Reports
66.020
Sale and Purchase of Protected Fish
66.021
Protected Fish: Display of Documents
66.022
Purchase for Evidence
66.023
Fraud in Fishing Tournaments
66.024
Seagrass Plants
66.0071
Removal of Harmful Aquatic Plants
66.0072
Exotic Harmful or Potentially Harmful Aquatic Plants
66.0073
Rules Requiring Water to Be Drained
66.0091
Fishing in Certain Man-made Waterways
66.102
Placing Prohibited Devices in Public Water
66.109
Fish Ladders
66.110
Screens to Protect Fish
66.111
Sale and Purchase of Certain Fish
66.114
Game and Nongame Fish Defined: Commission Proclamation
66.115
Handfishing
66.121
Penalty
66.204
Vessels and Obstructions in Fish Passes
66.206
Trotline Tags
66.208
Commercial Joint Fishing Ventures
66.215
Tags for Noncommercial Nets and Seines
66.216
Possession of Headed or Tailed Fish
66.217
Finfish Research
66.218
Penalties
66.301
Definition
66.303
Prohibited Acts
66.304
Port Authorities and Navigation Districts
66.305
Harbor Pilots
66.306
Enforcement
66.307
Political Asylum
66.308
Penalty
66.2011
Red Drum and Speckled Sea Trout: Penalties
66.2012
Regulation of Commercial Uses of Redfish and Speckled Sea Trout
66.2161
Sale or Purchase of Shark Fins or Shark Fin Products

Accessed:
Jun. 5, 2024

§ 66.0091’s source at texas​.gov