Tex. Lab. Code § 52.021 · Subchapter C. RESTRICTIONS ON LENGTH OF HOES
MINIMUM LENGTH OF HOE HANDLES.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An employer of agricultural laborers may not require an employee to use a hoe that has a handle shorter than four feet while performing agricultural labor in a commercial farming operation.
(b) This section does not apply to an employer engaged in the operation of a greenhouse or nursery.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.52.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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