Terms Used In Texas Parks and Wildlife Code 47.012

  • Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005

No restaurant owner, operator, or employee may purchase for consumption by the restaurant’s patrons on the restaurant’s premises any aquatic product from any person or entity in this state unless the person purchases the aquatic product from the operator of a commercial aquaculture facility as defined by § 134.001, Agriculture Code, or the holder of:
(1) a wholesale fish dealer’s license;
(2) a general commercial fisherman’s license;
(3) a commercial shrimp boat license;
(4) a commercial shrimp boat captain’s license;
(5) a commercial crab fisherman’s license;
(6) a commercial finfish fisherman’s license; or
(7) a commercial gulf shrimp unloading license.