TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE
SUBTITLE C. STATE MILITARY FORCES AND VETERANS
CHAPTER 431. STATE MILITIA
SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 431.010. Organization Prohibited.
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a body of persons
other than the regularly organized state military forces or the
troops of the United States may not associate as a military
company or organization or parade in public with firearms in a
municipality of the state.
(b) With the consent of the governor, students in an
educational institution at which military science is a prescribed
part of the course of instruction and soldiers honorably
discharged from the service of the United States may drill and
parade with firearms in public.
(c) This section does not prevent a parade by the active
militia of another state as provided by law.
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