{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-822.111","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 822.111","heading":"POWERS AND DUTIES OF EXECUTIVE COMMISSIONER; CAGING REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS.","body":"(a) The executive commissioner by rule shall establish caging requirements and standards for the keeping and confinement of a dangerous wild animal to ensure that the animal is kept in a manner and confined in a primary enclosure that:\n(1) protects and enhances the public's health and safety;\n(2) prevents escape by the animal; and\n(3) provides a safe, healthy, and humane environment for the animal.\n(b) An owner of a dangerous wild animal shall keep and confine the animal in accordance with the caging requirements and standards established by the executive commissioner.\n(c) An animal registration agency may approve a deviation from the caging requirements and standards established by the executive commissioner, only if:\n(1) the animal registration agency has good cause for the deviation; and\n(2) the deviation:\n(A) does not compromise the public's health and safety;\n(B) does not reduce the total area of the primary enclosure below that established by the executive commissioner; and\n(C) does not otherwise adversely affect the overall welfare of the animal involved.\nAdded by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 54, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.\nAmended by:\nActs 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1602, eff. April 2, 2015.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 10. HEALTH AND SAFETY OF ANIMALS","CHAPTER 822. REGULATION OF ANIMALS","SUBCHAPTER E. DANGEROUS WILD ANIMALS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.822.htm#822.111","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"a3804ca1ca1dab0189aac4d586b03b5faff553118cd5c883f3574f3222f2ca45","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-822.110","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-822.112"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}