Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.065 · Subchapter D. INVESTIGATION AND INSPECTION
RIGHT OF ENTRY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) For an investigation or inspection, the commissioner, an employee of the department, or a health authority has the right of entry on land or in a building, vehicle, watercraft, or aircraft and the right of access to an individual, animal, or object that is in isolation, detention, restriction, or quarantine instituted by the commissioner, an employee of the department, or a health authority or instituted voluntarily on instructions of a private physician.
(b) Evidence gathered during an entry by the commissioner, 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. 2.175, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
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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- 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
Cited by 3 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.065. 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 81.065
- 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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