This Chapter on Endangered Plants lays down rules and provisions regarding: 1- Definitions; 2- Provisions on Endangered, Threatened, Or Protected Native Plants confirming that species of native plants are endangered, threatened, or protected if listed as such on the United States List of Endangered Plant Species or filed as such by the director of the department; 3- Statewide List and Amendments to List; 4- Permits issued to qualified persons to take such species from public land for the purpose of propagation, education, or scientific studies; 5- Regulations that shall be adopted by the department to administer permit application forms, fees, procedures, hearing procedures, procedures for identifying endangered, threatened, or protected plants, and publication and distribution of lists of endangered, threatened, or protected plants; 6- Activities such as biological research and field investigations conducted by the Department; 7- Prohibited Acts prohibiting any person to take for commercial sale, possess for commercial sale, or sell all or part of an endangered, threatened, or protected plant from public land; 8- Permit for taking plants from private land; 9- Exceptions; 10- Penalties for the offense of violating any provisions of this Chapter; and 11- Injunction against governmental violator that gives the State of Texas the right to a civil suit for injunctive relief against any state or local government that violates or threatens to violate a provision of this Chapter.
États-Unis d'Amérique · 1981-09-01