Tex. Gov't Code § 497.113 · Subchapter F. AGRICULTURE
SURPLUS AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY AND PRODUCTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The board may authorize the sale or disposal of surplus agricultural products and personal property owned by the department, other than products or property produced for sale by the department.
(b) Products and property described by Subsection (a) shall be sold under rules adopted by the board and at prices and terms set pursuant to those rules.
(c) The department may use surplus agricultural capacity to provide agricultural products to a nonprofit organization at no profit to the department.
(d) The department is encouraged to enter into agreements with nonprofit food banks. An agreement under this subsection may provide that a food bank will supply seed and fertilizer to the department and that the department will in turn provide to the food bank agricultural products grown from the seed and with the assistance of the fertilizer. For the purpose of this subsection, "nonprofit food bank" means a nonprofit organization that solicits, warehouses, and redistributes edible food to agencies that feed needy families and individuals.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1409, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 303, Sec. 1, eff. May 29, 1999.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.497.htm
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