In this chapter:
- (1) "Wildlife resources" means all wild animals, wild birds, and aquatic animal life.
- (2) "Depletion" means the reduction of a species below its immediate recuperative potential by any cause.
- (3) "Waste" means the failure to provide for the regulated harvest of surplus wildlife resources when that harvest would allow, promote, or optimize a healthy and self-sustaining population of a species.
Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1405, ch. 545, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1975.
Amended by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 439, ch. 184, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 31, 1981;
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 2740, ch. 748, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1981;
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1256, Sec. 72, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.