http://m.caller.com/news/2012/dec/10/city-of-corpus-christi-addresses-duck-hunting/ Link Here

Any other Corpus Christi hunters around here?
Heard mention of this earlier today and the information was very limited, so this brings to light a little more information.

May have to take a break at work and sneak over to city hall tomorrow to ensure nothing funky going to slip In.

Too bad I can't make it today

I am in corpus flying back to DFW today...it made the front page of the paper today and I heard them discussing it on the radio

Attached are the proposed changes to the city ordinance concerning duck hunting. Subsection (c) is where most of the restrictions are written. It looks like they are clarifying that you can’t hunt within 1000 feet of certain highways. They had to remove the restrictions in the ETJ because they don’t have the authority to make restrictions outside of the city limits.

Local Government Code 229.002, which limits the restrictions that cities can put on discharging weapons, reads as follows:
Sec. 229.002. REGULATION OF DISCHARGE OF WEAPON. A municipality may not apply a regulation relating to the discharge of firearms or other weapons in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality or in an area annexed by the municipality after September 1, 1981, if the firearm or other weapon is:
(1) a shotgun, air rifle or pistol, BB gun, or bow and arrow discharged:
(A) on a tract of land of 10 acres or more and more than 150 feet from a residence or occupied building located on another property; and
(B) in a manner not reasonably expected to cause a projectile to cross the boundary of the tract; or
(2) a center fire or rim fire rifle or pistol of any caliber discharged:
(A) on a tract of land of 50 acres or more and more than 300 feet from a residence or occupied building located on another property; and
(B) in a manner not reasonably expected to cause a projectile to cross the boundary of the tract.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 18, Sec. 4, eff. May 3, 2005.





Ordinance
Amending section 33-75 of the Corpus Christi Code by clarifying the area where discharge of firearm is prohibited, clarifying unlawful act, clarifying areas where waterfowl hunting is not allowed within 1,000 feet; providing an effective date; providing for severance; and
providing for publication.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, THAT:
SECTION 1. Section Sec. 33-75 is revised to read as follows: Sec. 33-75. - Discharging firearms; waterfowl hunting.
(a) It shall be is unlawful for any unauthorized person to fire or discharge any gun, pistol, rifle or other firearm of any description within the city limits as they existed on August 31, 1981. , or from without the corporate limits of the city and permit any shot, projectile, B-B's, slugs or ammunition to fall within the city. The unauthorized discharge of firearms of any description outside of the city and within four hundred (400) feet of the city limits or the firing outside of the city and permitting the projectile to fall within the city is hereby declared a nuisance and is prohibited.
(b) However, except as restricted by subsection (c) of this section, waterfowl hunting within the lawful seasons and during the times prescribed by any federal and state agencies with jurisdiction over the taking of waterfowl, subject to the rules and regulations of federal and state agencies of appropriate jurisdiction, and the discharge of firearms, subject to such state law, rules, and regulations, shall be permitted lawful within the city in the following described areas: Corpus Christi Bay, Nueces Bay, and the Upper Laguna Madre within the corporate limits. (For the purposes of this section, anyone on the waterside of the vegetation line is considered to be within Corpus Christi Bay or Upper Laguna Madre.
(c) No waterfowl hunting is permitted It is unlawful to engage in waterfowl hunting as allowed in subsection (b) within one thousand (1,000) feet of a residence; business establishment; industrial facility, school; institution of higher education; other structure designed for residential or commercial occupation (but not including storage sheds, hunting/fishing camps, pump facilities); dock appurtenant to a residential or commercial structure (other than those associated with a hunting/fishing camp or oil/gas field production installation); trailer or recreational vehicle park; military installation; any public beach; any city, county, state, or federal park; the JFK Causeway, causeway between Flour Bluff and North Padre Island Park Road 22/South Padre Island Drive fromeast of Laguna Shores Road to the eastern side of the bridge; the Nueces Bay Causeway, U.S. Highway 181 causeway between Corpus Christi and Portland from the Portland- Corpus Christi city limits on the north to North Beach on the south; the Laguna Shores shoreline adjacent to Laguna Shores Road; or the corporate limits of another municipality that prohibits the discharge of firearms within its city limits.
SECTION 2. The effective date of this ordinance is the date of final City Council approval.
SECTION 3. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose.
SECTION 4. Publication shall be made one time in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi as required by the City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi.