Tex. Health & Safety Code § 144.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
CONSTRUCTION OF OTHER LAWS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This chapter does not affect:
(1) Chapter 141, Agriculture Code; or
(2) any state law or a rule of any public regulatory body that relates to the control of water or air pollution.
(b) This chapter does not affect a municipality's power to regulate by ordinance rendering businesses within the boundaries of the municipality. However, each rendering establishment, related station, transfer station, dead animal hauler, or renderable raw material hauler subject to a municipal ordinance shall comply with this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 485, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.144.htm
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