Tex. Health & Safety Code § 433.0815 · Subchapter F. ENFORCEMENT
INTERFERENCE WITH INSPECTION; CRIMINAL PENALTIES.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if the person with criminal negligence interrupts, disrupts, impedes, or otherwise interferes with a livestock inspector while the inspector is performing a duty under this chapter.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor.
(c) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the interruption, disruption, impediment, or interference alleged consisted of speech only.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 730, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Source of truth
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- 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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- 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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