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Tex. Agriculture Code § 131.121

This is the official text of Tex. Agriculture Code § 131.121, part of Texas’s Agriculture Code — regulates farming, livestock, and agricultural commerce.

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§ 131.121. DISEASE AND PEST CONTROL.

Official statutory text

(a) A person commits an offense if the person:

(1) violates a provision of Section 131.022 or 131.023;

(2) fails to report reportable diseases or reportable pests in accordance with Section 131.025;

(3) ships or causes bees or equipment to be shipped into this state without the permit required by Section 131.041;

(4) violates a rule, order, or quarantine of the chief apiary inspector adopted under this chapter;

(5) prevents or attempts to prevent an inspection of bees, equipment, pollen, or honey under the direction of the inspector under this chapter;

(6) prevents or attempts to prevent the discovery or treatment of bees with reportable diseases or reportable pests;

(7) interferes with or attempts to interfere with the inspector in the discharge of the duties under this chapter;

(8) as the owner or keeper of a colony of bees that has a reportable disease or contains a reportable pest, barters, gives away, sells, ships, or moves the bees, equipment, pollen, or honey or exposes other bees to the reportable disease or reportable pest; or

(9) exposes honey, pollen, hives, frames, combs, bees, or appliances from a colony of bees known to have a reportable disease or contain a reportable pest in a manner that provides access to other bees.

(b) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.

(c) All fines collected under this section shall be deposited in the state treasury.

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