Terms Used In Texas Parks and Wildlife Code 44.0125

  • Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Take: except as otherwise provided by this code, means collect, hook, hunt, net, shoot, or snare, by any means or device, and includes an attempt to take or to pursue in order to take. See Texas Parks and Wildlife Code 1.101
  • 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. See Texas Parks and Wildlife Code 1.101

It is an offense if:
(1) a licensed game breeder takes, traps, or captures or attempts to take or capture game animals from the wild;
(2) a licensed game breeder allows the hunting or killing of a game animal held in captivity under the provisions of this chapter; or
(3) a person fails to furnish to a game warden commissioned by the department information as to the source from which game animals held in captivity were derived.