When used in this subchapter, the following words and terms
shall have the following meanings, except where the context clearly
indicates otherwise. All other words and terms used in this subchapter
shall have the meanings assigned by the Parks and Wildlife Code.
(1) Administratively complete--An application for a
permit or permit renewal that contains all information requested by
the department, as indicated on the application form, without omissions.
(2) Container--Any bag, sack, box, crate, tray, conveyance,
or receptacle used to hold, store, or transport oysters possessed
under a permit issued under this subchapter.
(3) Cultured oyster mariculture facility (facility)--Any
building, cage, or other infrastructure within a permitted area.
(4) Gear tag--A tag composed of material as durable
as the device to which it is attached.
(5) Infrastructure--A building, platform, dock, vessel,
cage, nursery structure, or any other apparatus or equipment within
a permitted area.
(6) Larvae--The free-swimming, planktonic life stage
of an oyster.
(7) National Shellfish Sanitation Program (NSSP)--The
cooperative program administered by the United States Food and Drug
Administration (USFDA) for the sanitary control of shellfish produced
and sold for human consumption in the United States and adopted by
rule of the Department of State Health Services.
(8) Nursery structure--A tank or chamber or system
of tanks or chambers or other, similar devices in which a cultivated
oyster is grown.
(9) Oyster seed--Shellstock of less than legal size.
(10) Permitted area--The geophysical and/or geographical
area identified in a permit where cultivated oyster mariculture activities
are authorized.
(11) Permit Identifier (permit ID)--A unique alphanumeric
identifier issued by the department to a permittee holding a Cultivated
Oyster Mariculture permit.
(12) Permittee--A person who holds a permit issued
under this subchapter.
(13) Prohibited Area--As defined by Texas Health and
Safety Code, §436.002(27).
(14) Restricted Area-- As defined by Texas Health and
Safety Code, §436.002(30).
(15) Restricted visibility--Any condition in which
visibility is restricted by fog, mist, falling snow, heavy rainstorm,
sandstorms, or any other similar causes.
(16) Shellstock (stock)--Live eastern oysters (Crassotrea virginica) in the shell.
(17) Wild-caught oyster--An oyster harvested from natural
oyster beds.
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