Disagree-Are you real sure about not being an attorney ? , that’s an impressive amount of info from a non-attorney I’d say .
I just received an email from my brother who also recreationally flies his drone around his house. He lives on a golf course that has recently been bought by a multi-millionaire who is renovating the course. As he was just flying around showing a friend how his drone flies, the owner drove up and started a tirade. Threatened lawsuits and saying he would take out a restraining order against my brother. Really??!! Aside from this person probably having something to hide, does he have a legal ground to stand on in Texas. The guy claimed that it was against the law to fly over private property with a drone. 98% of Texas is "private property", so the question seems relevant. I could understand the problem of taking photographs of someone's property and distributing them, but just to fly over it is illegal? Doesn't make sense to me.
Are you real sure about not being an attorney ? , that’s an impressive amount of info from a non-attorney I’d say .
Sorry I was just messing with your propellers!!I'm *not* an attorney, nor do I live in Texas, but as I recall that particular statute came into being to cover prosecuting the animal rights folks who were spying on ranches and farms to get images of animal abuse.
I could be very, very wrong.
Sec. 423.003. OFFENSE: ILLEGAL USE OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT TO CAPTURE IMAGE. (a) A person commits an offense if the person uses an unmanned aircraft to capture an image of an individual or privately owned real property in this state with the intent to conduct surveillance on the individual or property captured in the image.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
(c) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the person destroyed the image:
(1) as soon as the person had knowledge that the image was captured in violation of this section; and
(2) without disclosing, displaying, or distributing the image to a third party.
(d) In this section, "intent" has the meaning assigned by Section 6.03, Penal Code.
Sorry I was just messing with your propellers!!
No worries. Dad was an attorney. I spent most of our "Take Your Kid To Work Days" in a courtroom...
[Thats interesting, back in my days as a kid we didn’t have the take your kid to work days .
My Dad was a chemical engineer, so it was probably a good thing I didn’t get into his laboratory. !!.
back in my days as a kid we didn’t have the take your kid to work days
That was back in Scotland , where everyone was too interested in chasing sheep and drinking whiskey .You're not *that* much older than I am. Probably a regional thing. Maybe.
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