Tex. Health and Safety Code § 87.042
This is the official text of Tex. Health and Safety Code § 87.042, part of Texas’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health and safety regulation.
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§ 87.042. DEPARTMENTAL INVESTIGATORY POWERS.
Official statutory text
To conduct an investigation under this chapter, the commissioner or the commissioner's designee has the same authority to enter, inspect, investigate, and take samples and to do so in the same manner as is provided for communicable diseases under Sections 81.061, 81.063, 81.064, and 81.065.
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