Texas Administrative Code › Title 31 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION › Part 2 - TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT › Chapter 65 - WILDLIFE › Subchapter C - PERMITS FOR TRAPPING, TRANSPORTING, AND TRANSPLANTING GAME ANIMALS AND GAME BIRDS › Section 65.101 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
					 subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly
					 indicates otherwise. All other words and terms shall have the meanings assigned
					 by Parks and Wildlife Code.
(1)
				  Aggregate acreage--Contiguous tracts of land, to, from, and between which game
				  animals and game birds have complete and unrestricted access, combined by
				  multiple landowners to create an area of land for the purpose of trapping or
				  releasing game animals or game birds under a permit issued under this
				  subchapter.
(2) Amendment--A
				  specific alteration or revision of currently permitted activities, the effect
				  of which does not constitute, as determined by the department, a new trapping,
				  transporting and transplanting operation.
(3) Certified Wildlife Trapper--An individual
				  who receives a department-issued permit pursuant to this section.
(4) Georeferenced map--A map image
				  incorporating a system of geographic ground coordinates, such as
				  latitude/longitude or Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates.
(5) Landowner--Any person who has
				  an ownership interest in a tract of land, and includes a person authorized by
				  the landowner to act on behalf of the landowner as the landowner's agent or
				  manager of an aggregate acreage.
(6) Natural Habitat--The type of site where a
				  game animal or game bird normally occurs and existing game populations are not
				  dependent on manufactured feed or feeding devices for sustenance.
(7) Nuisance Squirrel--A squirrel that is
				  causing damage to personal property.
(8) Overpopulation--A condition where the
				  habitat is being detrimentally affected by high animal densities, or where such
				  condition is imminent.
(9)
				  Permittee--Any person authorized by a permit to perform activities governed by
				  this subchapter.
(10) Processing
				  facility--The specific destination of white-tailed deer trapped and transported
				  pursuant to a permit to trap, transport, and process surplus white-tailed deer
				  where deer will be processed for consumption.
(11) Qualified individual--An individual who
				  has a wildlife management plan approved by the department.
(12) Release Site--The specific destination
				  of game animals or game birds to be relocated pursuant to a permit issued under
				  this subchapter.
(13) Supervisory
				  permittee--A person who supervises the activities of permittees authorized to
				  conduct activities.
(14) Trap
				  Site--The specific source of game animals or game birds to be relocated
				  pursuant to a permit issued under this subchapter.
(15) Trapping year--The period of time
				  between September 1 of one year and August 31 of the immediately following
				  year.
(16) Wildlife Stocking
				  Plans--The stocking plan for :
(A) a trap site
				  consists of the biological information about the trap site required by the
				  department on the application for a permit under this subchapter; and
(B) a release site consists of:
(i) the biological information about the
				  release site required by the department on the application for a permit under
				  this subchapter; or
(ii) if the
				  prospective activities involve deer or javelina, a wildlife management plan
				  (WMP) prepared under the provisions of §
												65.25
				  of this title (relating to Wildlife Management Plan).