Tex. Health & Safety Code § 144.030 · Subchapter C. OPERATING PROCEDURES
COLLECTION CONTAINER REQUIREMENTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A container in which dead animals or renderable raw materials are accumulated by a producer at collecting points for pickup by a dead animal hauler or renderable raw material hauler must remain on the premises at each collecting point.
(b) The owner of the containers shall maintain the containers in a leak-proof and sanitary condition and shall replace them as necessary.
(c) The transportation, delivery, transfer, loading, and off-loading of dead animals and renderable raw materials shall be performed in a manner that prevents the release of animal parts and spills or leaks of renderable raw materials from containers. A release of dead animal parts or spill or leak of renderable raw materials shall immediately be cleaned up and reported in the log required by Section 144.022.
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. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.144.htm
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