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Health and Safety Code Chapter 822 - Regulation of animals

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Health and Safety Code
Sec. 822.041.  Definitions.
         In this subchapter:

              (3) "Dog" means a domesticated animal that is a member of the canine family.

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 916, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
 

Texas Constitution

Sec. 9.  Searches and seizures.

Sec. 9.  The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from all unreasonable seizures or searches, and no warrant to search any place, or to seize any person or thing, shall issue without describing them as near as may be, nor without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation.

Sec. 10.  Rights of accused in criminal prosecutions.

Sec. 10.  In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have a speedy public trial by an impartial jury.  He shall have the right to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him, and to have a copy thereof.  He shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself, and shall have the right of being heard by himself or counsel, or both, shall be confronted by the witnesses against him and shall have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, except that when the witness resides out of the State and the offense charged is a violation of any of the anti-trust laws of this State, the defendant and the State shall have the right to produce and have the evidence admitted by deposition, under such rules and laws as the Legislature may hereafter provide; and no person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense, unless on an indictment of a grand jury, except in cases in which the punishment is by fine or imprisonment, otherwise than in the penitentiary, in cases of impeachment, and in cases arising in the army or navy, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger.

Sec. 16.  Bills of attainder; ex post facto or retroactive laws; impairing obligation of contracts.

Sec. 16.  No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made.

Sec. 19.  Deprivation of life, liberty, etc.; due course of law.

Sec. 19.  No citizen of this State shall be deprived of life, liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or in any manner disfranchised, except by the due course of the law of the land.

Parks and Wildlife Code
Sec. 1.101.  Definitions.
         In this code:
(4) "Wild," when used in reference to an animal, means a species,
including each individual of a species, that normally lives in a state
of nature and is not ordinarily domesticated.  This definition does not
include exotic livestock defined by Section 161.001 (a)(3) and (4),
Agriculture Code.

Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1975.
Amended by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 378, ch. 153, Sec. 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.
 

Parks and Wildlife Code
Sec. 12.601.  Definition.
         In this subchapter, "wild animals" means:
              (1) lions;
              (2) tigers;
              (3) ocelots;
              (4) cougars;
              (5) leopards;
              (6) cheetahs;
              (7) jaguars;
              (8) hyenas;
              (9) bears;
              (10) lesser pandas;
              (11) binturongs;
              (12) wolves;
              (13) apes;
              (14) elephants; and
              (15) rhinoceroses.
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 432, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.
                             Repeal
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 23, Sec. 3 repeals this section effective
September 1, 1997.

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