Tex. Agric. Code § 188.012 · Subchapter B. ANIMAL FEED LIEN
PROCEDURES FOR SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commissioner of agriculture by rule shall establish a procedure to settle a dispute between a claimant supplying animal feed and labor and a debtor. The procedures must provide:
(1) a time requirement for submitting the dispute to the department;
(2) a time requirement within which a notice of the dispute must be submitted to each party; and
(3) a process for evaluating the dispute.
(b) Each party to the dispute is equally liable for the reasonable costs incurred by the department in carrying out this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 197, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
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.188.htm
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