Tex. Health & Safety Code § 825.021 · Subchapter B. PURCHASE OF POISON TO DESTROY CERTAIN ANIMAL PESTS
COMMISSIONERS COURT MAY PURCHASE POISON.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commissioners court of a county may purchase poisons and related accessories required by citizens of the county to destroy prairie dogs, wildcats, gophers, ground squirrels, wolves, coyotes, rats, English sparrows, and ravens.
(b) The commissioners court may furnish the poison to citizens of the county free or at cost.
(c) The commissioners court shall pay for the poison from the general fund of the county and shall deposit the proceeds of any sale to the credit of that fund.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.825.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
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