Tex. Health & Safety Code § 141.009 · Chapter 141. YOUTH CAMPS
STANDARDS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The executive commissioner by rule shall establish health and safety standards for youth camps. The standards may relate to:
(1) adequate and proper supervision at all times of camp activities;
(2) qualifications for directors, supervisors, and staff and sufficient numbers of those persons;
(3) proper safeguards for sanitation and public health;
(4) adequate medical services for personal health and first aid;
(5) proper procedures for food preparation, handling, and mass feeding;
(6) healthful and sufficient water supply;
(7) proper waste disposal;
(8) proper water safety procedures for swimming pools, lakes, and waterways;
(9) safe boating equipment;
(10) proper maintenance and safe use of motor vehicles;
(11) safe buildings and physical facilities;
(12) proper fire precautions;
(13) safe and proper recreational and other equipment;
(14) proper regard for density and use of the premises; and
(15) records of criminal convictions of camp personnel.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1373, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0384, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.141.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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