Definition of livestock, which includes llamas, from the Texas Agriculture Code

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AGRICULTURE CODE

TITLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 1.001. PURPOSE OF CODE. (a) This code is enacted as a part of
the state's continuing statutory revision program, begun by
the Texas Legislative Council in 1963 as directed by the legislature in
Chapter 448, Acts of the 58th Legislature, Regular
Session, 1963 (Article 5429b-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
The program contemplates a topic-by-topic revision of the state's general
and permanent statute law without substantive change.
(b) Consistent with the objectives of the statutory revision
program, the purpose of this code is to make the
agriculture law more accessible and understandable, by:
(1) rearranging the statutes into a more logical order;

(2) employing a format and numbering system designed to
facilitate citation of the law and to accommodate future
expansion of the law;
(3) eliminating repealed, duplicative, unconstitutional,
expired, executed, and other ineffective provisions; and
(4) restating the law in modern American English to the
greatest extent possible.

Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1015, ch. 388, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.

§ 1.002. CONSTRUCTION OF CODE. The Code Construction Act (Chapter
311, Government Code) applies to the construction of
each provision in this code, except as otherwise expressly provided by this
code.

Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1015, ch. 388, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.
Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 479,§ 66, eff. Sept. 1,
1985.

§ 1.003. DEFINITIONS. In this code:

(1) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture.

(2) "Department" means the Department of Agriculture.

(3) "Livestock" means cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep,
goats, llamas, alpacas, exotic livestock, and hogs, unless
otherwise defined.

Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1015, ch. 388, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981. Amended
by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 604, § 1, eff.
Sept. 1, 2003.

Amended by:

Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1094, § 1, eff. June 15, 2007.

Source: http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/ag.toc.htm


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