Tex. Agric. Code § 148.029 · Subchapter C. PAYMENT FOR LIVESTOCK PURCHASED FOR SLAUGHTER
FEE FOR HORSES SOLD TO SLAUGHTERER.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A slaughterer shall pay the following fees for each horse purchased for slaughter:
(1) $2 to the Texas Agricultural Extension Service; and
(2) $3 to the department, agency, or association authorized and designated by the secretary of agriculture of the United States to inspect livestock in Texas under 7 U.S.C. Section 217a.
(b) The slaughterer shall remit the fees required by Subsection (a) on a weekly basis.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 780, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AG/htm/AG.148.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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