Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.064 · Subchapter D. INVESTIGATION AND INSPECTION
INSPECTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department or a health authority may enter at reasonable times and inspect within reasonable limits a public place in the performance of that person's duty to prevent or control the entry into or spread in this state of communicable disease by enforcing this chapter or the rules adopted under this chapter.
(b) In this section, "a public place" means all or any portion of an area, building or other structure, or conveyance that is not used for private residential purposes, regardless of ownership.
(c) Evidence gathered during an inspection by the department or health authority under this section may not be used in a criminal proceeding other than a proceeding to assess a criminal penalty under this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 198, Sec. 2.174, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0231, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.81.htm
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Cited by 3 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.064. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.068REFUSING ENTRY OR INSPECTION; CRIMINAL PENALTY.Printed as Section 81.064
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 87.042DEPARTMENTAL INVESTIGATORY POWERS.Printed as Sections 81.061, 81.063, 81.064, and 81.065
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 161.0212RIGHT OF ENTRY.Printed as Sections 81.061, 81.063, 81.064, and 81.065
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