Tex. Health & Safety Code § 433.054 · Subchapter D. MISCELLANEOUS PROHIBITIONS
DEAD, DYING, DISABLED, AND DISEASED ANIMALS; ANIMALS DYING IN MANNER OTHER THAN SLAUGHTER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If registration is required by department rule, a person may not engage in any of the following businesses, in or for intrastate commerce, unless the person has registered with the department:
(1) meat brokering or rendering;
(2) manufacturing animal food;
(3) wholesaling or warehousing for the public livestock or any part of a carcass of livestock, regardless of whether it is intended for human food; or
(4) buying, selling, or transporting dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or part of a carcass of livestock.
(b) A registration must include the person's name, each of the person's places of business, and each trade name under which the person does business.
(c) A person may not engage in the business of selling, buying, or transporting in intrastate commerce dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock or part of the carcass of livestock that died otherwise than by slaughter unless the transaction or transportation complies with department rules adopted to assure that the animals or unwholesome parts or products of the animals are not used for human food.
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. 3.1052, eff. April 2, 2015.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.433.htm
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