Tex. Health & Safety Code § 433.045 · Subchapter C. LABELING AND OTHER STANDARDS
PROTECTION OF OFFICIAL DEVICE, MARK, AND CERTIFICATE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A person may not:
(1) cast, print, lithograph, or make in any other manner, except as authorized by the department in accordance with department rules:
(A) a device containing or label bearing an official mark or a simulation of an official mark; or
(B) a form of official certificate or simulation of an official certificate;
(2) forge an official device, mark, or certificate;
(3) without the department's authorization, use, alter, detach, deface, or destroy an official device, mark, or certificate or use a simulation of an official device, mark, or certificate;
(4) detach, deface, destroy, or fail to use an official device, mark, or certificate, in violation of a department rule;
(5) knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the department:
(A) an official device;
(B) a counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official certificate; or
(C) a device, label, animal carcass, or part or product of an animal carcass, bearing a counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official mark;
(6) knowingly make a false statement in a shipper's certificate or other certificate provided for by department rule; or
(7) knowingly represent that an article has been inspected and passed, when it has not, or is exempted, when it is not.
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. 3.1050, 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.433.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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