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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