Texas Health And Safety Code Title 10, Chapter 821 - Treatment And Disposition Of Animals
SUBCHAPTER A TREATMENT OF ANIMALS
- Texas Section 821.001 - Definition
In this subchapter, "animal" includes every living nonhuman creature. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by: Acts 2015,...
- Texas Section 821.002 - Treatment Of Impounded Animals
(a) A person who impounds or causes the impoundment of an animal under state law or municipal ordinance shall supply the animal with sufficient wholesome...
- Texas Section 821.003 - Treatment Of Live Birds
(a) This section applies to a person who receives live birds for transportation or for confinement: (1) on wagons or stands; (2) by a person...
SUBCHAPTER B DISPOSITION OF CRUELLY TREATED ANIMALS
- Texas Section 821.004 - Knowledge Or Acts Of Corporate Agent Or Employee
The knowledge and acts of an agent or employee of a corporation in regard to an animal transported, owned, or used by or in the...
- Texas Section 821.021 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Cruelly treated" includes tortured, seriously overworked, unreasonably abandoned, unreasonably deprived of necessary food, care, or shelter, cruelly confined, or caused to...
- Texas Section 821.0211 - Additional Definition
In this subchapter, "magistrate" means any officer as defined in Article 2.09, Code of Criminal Procedure, except that the term does not include justices of...
- Texas Section 821.022 - Seizure Of Cruelly Treated Animal
(a) If a peace officer or an officer who has responsibility for animal control in a county or municipality has reason to believe that an...
- Texas Section 821.023 - Hearing; Order Of Disposition Or Return Of Animal
(a) A finding in a court of competent jurisdiction that the owner of an animal is guilty of an offense under Section 42.09 or 42.092,...
- Texas Section 821.024 - Sale Or Disposition Of Cruelly Treated Animal
(a) Notice of an auction ordered under this subchapter must be posted on a public bulletin board where other public notices are posted for the...
- Texas Section 821.025 - Appeal
(a) An owner divested of ownership of an animal under Section 821.023 may appeal the order to a county court or county court at law...
SUBCHAPTER C EUTHANASIA OF ANIMALS
- Texas Section 821.026 - Conflict Of Laws
In the event of a conflict between this subchapter and another provision of any other law relating to an appeal of a disposition regarding a...
- Texas Section 821.051 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Animal" has the meaning assigned by Section 821.001. (2) "Animal shelter" means a facility that collects, impounds, or keeps stray, homeless,...
- Texas Section 821.052 - Methods Of Euthanasia
(a) A person may euthanize a dog or cat in the custody of an animal shelter only by administering sodium pentobarbital. (b) A person may...
- Texas Section 821.053 - Requirements For Use Of Sodium Pentobarbital
(a) The executive commissioner by rule shall establish the requirements and procedures for administering sodium pentobarbital to euthanize an animal in the custody of an...
- Texas Section 821.054 - Requirements For Use Of Commercially Compressed Carbon Monoxide
(a) The executive commissioner by rule shall establish: (1) standards for a carbon monoxide chamber used to euthanize an animal to which Section 821.052(b) applies;...
- Texas Section 821.055 - Training For Euthanasia Technicians
(a) A person may not euthanize an animal in the custody of an animal shelter unless the person has successfully completed, not more than three...
- Texas Section 821.056 - Offense And Penalty
(a) A person commits an offense if the person violates this subchapter or a rule adopted under this subchapter. (b) An offense under this section...
SUBCHAPTER D UNLAWFUL RESTRAINT OF DOG
- Texas Section 821.057 - Injunction
A court of competent jurisdiction, on the petition of any person, may prohibit by injunction the substantial violation of this subchapter or a rule adopted...
- Texas Section 821.076 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Collar" means any collar constructed of nylon, leather, or similar material, specifically designed to be used for a dog. (2) "Owner"...
- Texas Section 821.077 - Unlawful Restraint Of Dog
(a) An owner may not leave a dog outside and unattended by use of a restraint that unreasonably limits the dog's movement: (1) between the...
- Texas Section 821.078 - Exceptions
Section 821.077 does not apply to: (1) a dog restrained to a running line, pulley, or trolley system and that is not restrained to the...
- Texas Section 821.079 - Penalty
(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly violates this subchapter. (b) A peace officer or animal control officer who has probable cause...
- Texas Section 821.080 - Disposition Of Penalty
Notwithstanding any other law, the clerk of a court that collects a penalty under this subchapter shall remit the penalty collected for deposit in the...
- Texas Section 821.081 - Hand-held Leashes
This subchapter does not prohibit a person from walking a dog with a hand-held leash. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 674 (H.B....
Last modified: September 28, 2016