Tex. Agric. Code § 74.009 · Subchapter A. COTTON PEST CONTROL
COTTON PEST CONTROL AND ERADICATION POLICY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The state shall employ all constitutional methods to control and eradicate cotton pests that scientific research demonstrates to be successful, including:
(1) inspection of host plants in the field or host plant products where stored;
(2) quarantine and fumigation of equipment, host plants, and host plant products found to be contaminated;
(3) supervision of the growing of host plants in areas known to be contaminated;
(4) destruction of infested fields of host plants or of infested host plant products;
(5) prevention of planting of host plants in areas where infestation has been found; and
(6) prevention of movement of equipment contaminated or reasonably suspected to be contaminated with cotton pests.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1175, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981. Renumbered from Sec. 74.052 and amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 957, Sec. 7, eff. June 16, 1995.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AG/htm/AG.74.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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