Texas Administrative Code
Title 4 - AGRICULTURE
Part 2 - TEXAS ANIMAL HEALTH COMMISSION
Chapter 36 - EXOTIC LIVESTOCK AND FOWL
Section 36.1 - Definitions
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1) Camelidae--Members of the family of animals which includes camels, lamas, and vicunas. The domestic members of the genus lama includes the llama, alpaca, and guanaco.
(2) Commission--Texas Animal Health Commission.
(3) Exotic Bovidae--Non-indigenous members of the family of animals which includes water buffalo, gnu (wildebeest), addax, antelope and nilgai (among others).
(4) Exotic Cervidae--Non-indigenous members of the family of animals which includes deer, elk, moose, caribou, reindeer and the sub-family musk deer.
(5) Exotic fowl--Any avian species that is not indigenous to this state. The term includes ratites.
(6) Exotic livestock--Grass-eating or plant-eating, single-hooved or cloven-hooved mammals that are not indigenous to this state and are known as ungulates, including animals from the swine, horse, tapir, camel, llama, rhinoceros, elephant, deer, and antelope families.
(7) Livestock--Cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas, exotic livestock, and hogs, unless otherwise defined.
(8) Ratite--Exotic fowl with a flat breastbone and small or nonexistent wings, such as ostriches, emu, moa, and kiwi.
