Tex. Parks & Wild. Code § 47.012 · Subchapter A. LICENSES
PURCHASE OF AQUATIC PRODUCTS BY RESTAURANT OWNER, OPERATOR, OR EMPLOYEE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
No restaurant owner, operator, or employee may purchase for consumption by the restaurant's patrons on the restaurant's premises any aquatic product from any person or entity in this state unless the person purchases the aquatic product from the operator of a commercial aquaculture facility as defined by Section 134.001, Agriculture Code, or the holder of:
(1) a wholesale fish dealer's license;
(2) a general commercial fisherman's license;
(3) a commercial shrimp boat license;
(4) a commercial shrimp boat captain's license;
(5) a commercial crab fisherman's license;
(6) a commercial finfish fisherman's license; or
(7) a commercial gulf shrimp unloading license.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 827, Sec. 3, eff. Aug. 26, 1985. Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 491, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 586, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 723, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 365, Sec. 13, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 862, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1995; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 455, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1151 (H.B. 1260), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2017.
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 848 (S.B. 703), Sec. 50, eff. September 1, 2021.
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