Tex. Health & Safety Code § 440.002 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
PURPOSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The legislature finds that a statewide licensing act is needed to:
(1) regulate manufacturers of frozen desserts, imitation frozen desserts, products sold in semblance of frozen desserts, or mixes for those products;
(2) provide for uniformity of inspections of the premises of frozen dessert manufacturers;
(3) protect the health and safety of consumers by preventing the manufacture or distribution of frozen desserts, imitation frozen desserts, products sold in semblance of frozen desserts, or mixes for those products that do not meet state standards or related requirements of purity or labeling; and
(4) assist manufacturers in meeting state standards or related requirements.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 14, Sec. 167, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.440.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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