Tex. Health & Safety Code § 437B.201 · Subchapter E. INVESTIGATION; ENFORCEMENT
INVESTIGATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department or a local authority may investigate a mobile food vendor on reasonable suspicion the vendor is violating the law or on receipt of a health or safety complaint. The department must record a complaint in the state's mobile food vendor database. The local authority shall report suspected violations of state law to the department and may recommend the department suspend or revoke a mobile food vendor license.
(b) The mobile food vendor shall cooperate with the department or local authority during an investigation. Failure to cooperate with the department or local authority may result in suspension or revocation of a license.
(c) This chapter may not be construed to impede the department or local authority when conducting an investigation of a reported foodborne illness.
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
- Text hash
- sha256 1a29fa119e5fc857cd15f9fb809258dab3ae3f0c5a4b5f5471e48d3f1ccac02e
- 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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