A person who owns or has responsibility for the control of a horse, mule, donkey, cow, bull, steer, hog, sheep, or goat may not knowingly permit the animal to traverse or roam at large, unattended, on the right-of-way of a highway.
Tex. Agric. Code § 143.102
RUNNING AT LARGE ON HIGHWAY PROHIBITED
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Levesque v. Wilkens (2001)
Most recently applied in Rose Ex Rel. C.D. v. Ben C. Hebert Heirs (February 2010)
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1350, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff
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Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.