Tex. Alco. Bev. Code § 38.01 · Chapter 38. INDUSTRIAL USE OF ALCOHOL
AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section, "industrial alcohol" means an alcohol that is produced for industrial purposes only and is not fit for human consumption.
(b) A person may:
(1) manufacture, rectify, refine, transport, and store industrial alcohol;
(2) denature industrial alcohol;
(3) sell denatured or industrial alcohol to qualified persons inside or outside the state; and
(4) blend industrial alcohol with petroleum distillates and sell or use the resulting product as a motor fuel.
(c) A person may import, transport, and use alcohol or denatured alcohol for the manufacture and sale of any of the following products:
(1) denatured alcohol;
(2) patent, proprietary, medicinal, pharmaceutical, antiseptic, and toilet preparations;
(3) flavoring extracts, syrups, condiments, and food products; and
(4) scientific, chemical, mechanical, and industrial products, or products used for scientific, chemical, mechanical, industrial, or medicinal purposes.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 449, ch. 194, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1359 (H.B. 1545), Sec. 144, eff. September 1, 2019.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AL/htm/AL.38.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
Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Alco. Bev. Code § 38.01. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Alcoholic Beverage Code
- Tex. Alco. Bev. Code § 14.01AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.Printed as Section 38.01
- Tex. Alco. Bev. Code § 14.10OPERATING AGREEMENTS BETWEEN PERMIT HOLDERS.Printed as Section 38.01
- Tex. Alco. Bev. Code § 38.06ACTIVITIES TAX FREE.Printed as Section 38.01
- Tex. Alco. Bev. Code § 109.64BULK PURCHASE FOR INDUSTRIAL USE.Printed as Section 38.01
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