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{{DISPLAYTITLE:{{PAGENAME}} of the Texas Constitution (discussion page)}}Texas Legal Guide (texaslegalguide.com) is currently under construction. This page is available for comment and discussion regarding the page ''{{PAGENAME}} of the Texas Constitution''. == add == A county sheriff has the authority and responsibility to enforce the estray laws of chapter 142 of the Agriculture Code whether the county has adopted a local-option stock law or remains an open-range area. https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/opinion-files/opinion/2019/kp-0278.pdf In exercise of that authority, the Legislature enacted chapter 143 of the Agriculture Code to give a local area the option to decide by election whether to impose a duty on owners of specified classes of animals to restrain the animals from running at large within the local area. TEX. AGRIC. CODE§§ 143.021-.082 (chapter 143, subchapters B-D). Chapter 143 alters the common law in two additional respects. It prohibits owners of livestock to knowingly allow their animals to run at large on the right of way of state or federal highways whether located in an openrange area or a stock-law area. Id.§ 143.102; Goode v. Bauer, 109 S.W.3d 788, 791 (Tex. App.- Corpus Christi 2003, pet. denied). ==add ?== Weaver v. Scurry (28 S.W. 836 Tex. Civ. App. 1894, no writ) Gibbs v. Jackson, 990 S.W.2d 745 (1999) == add == https://cite.case.law/pdf/4406757/Lastro%20v.%20State,%203%20Tex.%20Ct.%20App.%20363%20(1878).pdf In an early case involving this section, the court of appeals said: "We think the words local and special are used in said Section 23 as synonymous terms..." (Lastro v. State, 3 Tex. App. 363, 374 (1878) (italics in original).
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