Tex. Health & Safety Code § 341.018 · Subchapter B. NUISANCES AND GENERAL SANITATION
RODENT CONTROL.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person who possesses an enclosed structure used or operated for public trade and who knows that the structure is infested with rodents shall:
(1) attempt to exterminate the rodents by poisoning, trapping, fumigating, or other appropriate means; and
(2) provide every practical means of eliminating rats in the structure.
(b) A public building that is constructed after September 4, 1945, must incorporate rat-proofing features.
(c) The department shall promote rodent control programs in rat-infested areas and in localities in which typhus fever has appeared.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0862, 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.341.htm
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- Composed by
- 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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