Tex. Agric. Code § 131.023 · Subchapter B. DISEASE AND PEST CONTROL
SALE OF QUEEN BEE AND ATTENDANTS, PACKAGE BEES, COLONIES, AND NUCLEI.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A person may not sell or offer for sale a queen bee and attendant bees, package bees, colonies, nuclei, or queen cells in this state unless the bees are accompanied by:
(1) a copy of a certificate from the chief apiary inspector certifying that the apiary from which the bees were shipped has been inspected not more than 12 months before the date of shipment and found apparently free from disease; or
(2) a copy of an affidavit made by the beekeeper stating that to the beekeeper's knowledge, the bees are not diseased.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 1884, ch. 350, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1983; Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 418, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Amended by:
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 882 (H.B. 4538), Sec. 9, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AG/htm/AG.131.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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