Tex. Health & Safety Code § 437B.001 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Applicant" means a person who applies to the department to receive a license to operate as a mobile food vendor.
(2) "Food vending vehicle" means any vehicle that operates as a food service establishment and is designed to be readily movable.
(3) "License holder" means a person who holds a mobile food vendor license issued under this chapter.
(4) "Local authority" means a municipality, county, public health authority, special purpose district or authority, or any other political subdivision of this state.
(5) "Mobile food vendor" means any person who dispenses food or beverages from a food vending vehicle for immediate service or consumption.
(6) "Prepackaged food" means any commercially labeled and processed food that is prepackaged to prevent direct human contact with the food product on distribution from the manufacturer, food facility, or other approved source.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 744 (H.B. 2844), Sec. 2, eff. July 1, 2026.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.437B.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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