Tex. Health & Safety Code § 501.034 · Subchapter C. ENFORCEMENT
PROHIBITED ACTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person may not hold or offer for sale, sell, or introduce or deliver for introduction into commerce a misbranded hazardous substance or banned hazardous substance.
(b) A person may not alter, mutilate, destroy, or remove all or part of the label of a hazardous substance, or do any other act relating to a hazardous substance, when the substance is in commerce or is held for sale, whether or not the first sale, after shipment in commerce, if the act results in the hazardous substance being a banned or misbranded hazardous substance.
(c) A person may not receive a banned or misbranded hazardous substance in commerce or deliver or offer to deliver a banned or misbranded hazardous substance for pay or otherwise.
(d) A person may not fail to permit entry or inspection as authorized by this chapter or to provide records as required by this chapter.
(e) A person may not use to his own advantage or reveal to any person other than the department or a court, if relevant to a judicial proceeding under this chapter, information acquired in an inspection authorized by this chapter and relating to a method or process that is entitled to protection as a trade secret.
(f) A person may not remove or dispose of a detained article or substance in violation of Section 501.035.
(g) A person may not manufacture, import, or repack a hazardous substance that is to be distributed in this state or otherwise distribute a hazardous substance in this state without complying with Section 501.024.
(h) A person may not package a hazardous substance in a new or reused food, drug, or cosmetic container that is identifiable as a food, drug, or cosmetic container by its labeling or other identification.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 360, Sec. 12, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.501.htm
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