Tex. Health & Safety Code § 488.003 · Chapter 488. OVER-THE-COUNTER SALES OF DEXTROMETHORPHAN
DISTRIBUTION TO MINORS PROHIBITED; PREREQUISITE TO SALE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A business establishment may not dispense, distribute, or sell dextromethorphan to a customer under 18 years of age.
(b) Before dispensing, distributing, or selling dextromethorphan over the counter, a business establishment must require the customer obtaining the drug to display a driver's license or other form of identification containing the customer's photograph and indicating that the customer is 18 years of age or older, unless from the customer's outward appearance the person making the sale may reasonably presume the customer to be 27 years of age or older.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 46 (H.B. 1518), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.
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.488.htm
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