Tex. Agric. Code § 61.015 · Chapter 61. INSPECTION, LABELING, AND SALE OF AGRICULTURAL AND VEGETABLE SEED
SEIZURE OF SEED NOT IN COMPLIANCE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department may sue in a court of competent jurisdiction in the area in which the seed is located for the seizure of any lot of agricultural or vegetable seed that is not in compliance with this chapter.
(b) If the court finds that the seed is not in compliance with this chapter, the court may condemn the seed. Condemned seed shall be denatured, processed, destroyed, relabeled, or otherwise disposed of in accordance with the law of this state.
(c) The court may not condemn the seed unless the owner or custodian of the seed is given the opportunity to apply to the court for the release of the seed or for permission to condition or relabel the seed to bring it into compliance with this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1131, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AG/htm/AG.61.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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