Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 62.101 · Subchapter F. UNLAWFUL CONTROLLED KILLING OF OR ATTEMPTING TO INJURE DANGEROUS WILD ANIMALS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this subchapter:
(1) "Captivity" means the state of being held under control or kept caged or penned.
(2) "Dangerous wild animal" means a lion, tiger, leopard, cheetah, hyena, bear, elephant, wolf, or rhinoceros and includes any species, subspecies, or hybrid of any of those animals.
(3) "Hybrid" means an offspring of two animals of different breeds, species, or genera.
(4) "Lion" means African and Asiatic lion.
(5) "Sanctuary" means a place of refuge where abused, neglected, unwanted, impounded, abandoned, orphaned, or displaced dangerous wild animals are provided care for their lifetime or until released back to their natural habitat.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 23, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PW/htm/PW.62.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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