Texas Administrative Code
Title 31 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
Part 2 - TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT
Chapter 69 - RESOURCE PROTECTION
Subchapter C - WILDLIFE REHABILITATION PERMITS
Section 69.43 - Definitions

(1) Education--Activities that encourage management and conservation of wildlife resources or that are intended to increase the public's awareness and understanding of aspects of wildlife biology.

(2) Final disposition--The terminal status of wildlife rehabilitation efforts due to transfer, retention, mortality, or euthanasia.

(3) Fostering--Using a captive animal to rear young animals of the same species.

(4) Holding--Retaining in captivity.

(5) Human imprinting or human bonding--A dependency or fixation upon humans as parent substitutes or companions.

(6) Non-releasable animal--An animal which, after rehabilitation, is determined by the department to be unlikely to survive in the wild if released.

(7) Propagate--To allow animals to produce offspring.

(8) Rehabilitation--The temporary caring for injured, orphaned, or sick wildlife until such animals can be released to the wild.

(9) Satellite rehabilitation facility (satellite facility)--A facility registered with the department and operated by a subpermittee under the supervision of a permittee.

(10) Socialize--Using a captive animal to teach wild behaviors to juvenile animals of the same species.

(11) Subpermittee--A person authorized by a permittee to conduct activities governed by this subchapter.

(12) "Wildlife Protected" wildlife--as defined by Parks and Wildlife Code, Chapter 43, Subchapter C.

(13) Supervisory permittee--A permittee who is responsible for the activities of subpermittees listed on the permittee's permit and volunteers at the permittee's or subpermittee's facility or satellite facility, as applicable.

(14) Volunteer--An individual who is not a permittee or subpermittee and works with permitted wildlife in the presence of the permittee or subpermittee.