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New Texas law criminalizes drone use near animal farms

House Bill 1643 makes it a crime to operate a drone over “concentrated animal feeding operations,” as well as telecommunication facilities and certain oil and gas facilities.

By ANDY DUEHREN, The Texas Tribune
Posted 9/28/17

David Mimlitch was on his lunch break in 2011, flipping through the 606 aerial photos he had just taken with a drone outside Dallas, when he noticed something strange: a creek stained scarlet with …

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