Texas Wildlife Management 

    Below is a synopsis of the new regulations past by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department on April 6th, 2006.   TWM interpretation of these new regulations stated below should only be taken as a guide.  Contact TPWD for a legal interpretation.

    These new rules or policies will take effect July 1, 2006 (except item #6).   

1.         Permits shall be valid from date of issuance until the immediately following June 30.  (Please be aware that the reporting period shall remain the same; April 1 through March 31).  The expiration date of your current 2005-2006 permit is now June 30, 2006 rather than March 31, 2006.

 2.         Renewal applications will be due May 15.

       3.         Permit fee for 2006-2007 renewals and new permits (beginning July 1) will be $400.  

4.         Purchase Permits, Transport Permits and Temporary Invoices will be replaced with a single new Transfer Permit. The new Transfer Permit will be available to breeders at no charge.  TPWD has stated that there will be no refunds provided for unused Purchase/Transport permits.   

5.         Beginning April 1, 2007, no deer may be removed from a breeder facility (including transfers between two facilities operated under the same TX serial number, transfers to/from nursing facilities, releases, transfers to DMP facilities, etc.) unless that herd is deemed “movement qualified.”  A herd is movement qualified if:  

a.       It has attained a CWD Monitored Herd Status of Level A or higher from the Texas Animal Health Commission, OR;  

b.      The owner provides to TPWD, negative (i.e. not detected) CWD test results on a minimum of 20% of all eligible mortalities (mortalities of animals 16 months of age or older) beginning on the effective date of this rule.  

6.         The annual movement qualified evaluation will occur on April 1 of each year.  If a breeder chooses option “b” above, the effective “start date” for counting mortalities will be the effective date of this rule (approximately May 4, 2006).  

7.         ONLY TPWD-issued unique numbers may be used.  Under new regulations, breeders MAY NOT create their own unique numbers.  As always, TPWD can issue you additional unique numbers if requested.  

8.         For new facilities/applicants, the new regulations require biologists conducting pen endorsements to perform on-site inspections.  

9.         TPWD may deny permit issuance or permit renewal to any person who within the last five years, has been finally convicted of or received deferred adjudication for violations of Parks and Wildlife Code (P&W Code) Chapter 43, subchapters C, E, L or R; Class A and B misdemeanors or felonies of P&W Code; or Section 63.002 of P&W Code that specifically addresses the unlawful possession of live game animals.  

10.     TPWD may prohibit a person from being an agent on a permit for a period of up to 5 years for convictions or deferred adjudications of any of the violations listed above in #9.  

11.     TPWD created a new policy which states that they will process permit applications and customer service requests in the order received.  “Walk-ins” will no longer receive priority (i.e. do not expect the permit to be issued the same day).

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