Tex. Agric. Code § 74.122 · Subchapter D. OFFICIAL COTTON GROWERS' BOLL WEEVIL ERADICATION FOUNDATION
QUARANTINE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department may adopt rules relating to quarantining areas of this state that are infested with the boll weevil or the pink bollworm. The rules must address the storage of regulated articles and the movement of regulated articles into and out of a quarantined area. The department may also adopt rules governing the movement of regulated articles from other states into this state if the articles are known to be infested with the boll weevil or the pink bollworm.
(b) The department shall adopt rules to prohibit the movement of cotton and regulated articles from an area infested with the boll weevil if the area is not participating in the boll weevil eradication program under this subchapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 8, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 16, eff. Sept. 1, 1995; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 463, Sec. 2.10, eff. May 30, 1997.
Amended by:
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 577 (S.B. 818), Sec. 3, eff. June 14, 2013.
Source of truth
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- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AG/htm/AG.74.htm
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