Sec. 43.525.  FAILURE OR REFUSAL TO SHOW CONSERVATION PERMIT;  PENALTY.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person commits an offense if the person is using land under the department's control and fails or refuses to show a conservation permit issued to the person on the demand of a game warden, peace officer, or department employee.
(b)  It is not an offense under Subsection (a) if a person who is using land under the department's control fails to show a conservation permit on the demand of a game warden, peace officer, or department employee, and that person:
(1)  entered land under the department's control as an occupant of a privately owned, noncommercial vehicle in which at least one other occupant possesses and is able to show a conservation permit issued to that other occupant; or
(2)  is a member of a group of individuals that the department has exempted from the requirement for a conservation permit.
(c)  An offense under this section is a Class C Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 883, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Amended by: 
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 78 (H.B. 1346), Sec. 2, eff. May 19, 2011.