LegalFix
Sign In

Section 75.0103. Cultivated Oyster Mariculture Program

TX Pks & Wildlife Code § 75.0103 (2019) (N/A)
Copy with citation
Copy as parenthetical citation

Sec. 75.0103. CULTIVATED OYSTER MARICULTURE PROGRAM. (a) The commission shall adopt rules to establish a program governing cultivated oyster mariculture.

(b) Rules adopted under the program may establish requirements for:

(1) the location and size of a cultivated oyster mariculture operation;

(2) the taking, possession, transport, movement, and sale of cultivated oysters;

(3) the taking, possession, transport, and movement of broodstock oysters;

(4) marking structures for the cultivation of oysters in a cultivated oyster mariculture operation;

(5) fees and conditions for use of public resources, including broodstock oysters and public water; and

(6) any other matter necessary to implement and administer this chapter.

(c) The department shall coordinate with the Department of Agriculture, the Department of State Health Services, the General Land Office, and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in the adoption of rules under this section.

Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 174 (H.B. 1300), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2019.

Previous Section
Section 75.0102. Applicability; Conflict of Laws
Next Section
Section 75.0104. Cultivated Oyster Mariculture Permit Required