Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 68.003 · Chapter 68. ENDANGERED SPECIES
STATEWIDE EXTINCTION LIST.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The director shall file with the secretary of state a list of fish or wildlife threatened with statewide extinction.
(b) Fish or wildlife may be classified by the director as threatened with statewide extinction if the department finds that the continued existence of the fish or wildlife is endangered due to:
(1) the destruction, drastic modification, or severe curtailment of its habitat;
(2) its overutilization for commercial or sporting purposes;
(3) disease or predation; or
(4) other natural or man-made factors.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1975.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PW/htm/PW.68.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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