Source: https://www.animallaw.info/statute/tx-disaster-%C2%A7-418043-other-powers-and-duties-pet-disaster-planning
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 06:44:44+00:00

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The Texas Division of Emergency Management is directed to assist political subdivisions in developing plans for the humane evacuation, transport, and temporary sheltering of service animals and household pets in a disaster.
(21) do other things necessary, incidental, or appropriate for the implementation of this chapter.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 992, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 2007, 80th Leg., ch. 1162, § 2, eff. June 15, 2007; Acts 2009, 81st Leg., ch. 1280, § 1.06, eff. Sept. 1, 2009; Acts 2009, 81st Leg., ch. 1408, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2009; Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., ch. 91 (S.B. 1303), § 11.010, eff. Sept. 1, 2011; Acts 2015, 84th Leg., ch. 959 (S.B. 1465), § 2, eff. June 18, 2015.
4. Local governments will develop emergency management plans that incorporate the needs of the whole of the local community including provisions for the needs of children; persons with medical, access, and/or functional needs; and pets and/or service animals.
27. Mass Care: The actions that are taken to protect evacuees and other disaster victims from the effects of the disaster. Activities include mass evacuation, mass sheltering, mass feeding, access and functional needs support, and household pet and service animal coordination.

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