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Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 433.034. Records

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) A person engaged for intrastate commerce in any of the following business activities shall keep records of each of the person's business transactions:

(1) slaughtering livestock;

(2) preparing, freezing, packaging, or labeling a livestock carcass or a part or product of a livestock carcass for use as human food or animal food;

(3) transporting, storing, buying, or selling, as a meat broker, wholesaler, or otherwise, a livestock carcass or a part or product of a livestock carcass;

(4) rendering; or

(5) buying, selling, or transporting dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock, or a part of a carcass of a livestock animal that died in a manner other than slaughter.

(b) On notice by the department, a person required to keep records shall at all reasonable times give the department and any representative of the United States Secretary of Agriculture accompanying the department staff:

(1) access to the person's place of business; and

(2) an opportunity to:

(A) examine the facilities, inventory, and records;

(B) copy the records required by this section; and

(C) take a reasonable sample of the inventory, on payment of the fair market value of the sample.

(c) The person shall maintain a record required by this section for the period prescribed by department rule.

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