Tex. Health & Safety Code § 434.003 · Subchapter A. BAKERIES
SANITARY REQUIREMENTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person may not sit or lie on any table, bench, trough, or shelf intended for dough or bakery products.
(b) Animals or fowl may not be kept or allowed in any bakery or other place where bakery products are produced or stored.
(c) A person engaged in the preparation or handling of bakery products shall wash the person's arms and hands thoroughly before beginning the preparation, mixing, or handling of ingredients used in baking. A bakery shall provide sufficient soap, washbasins, and clean towels for that purpose.
(d) A person may not use tobacco in any form in any room in which a bakery product is manufactured, wrapped, or prepared for sale.
(e) A person with a communicable disease may not work in a bakery, handle any product in the bakery, or deliver a product from the bakery.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.434.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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