Texas Agriculture Code Title 6, Chapter 168 - Pullorum Disease And Fowl Typhoid Control

• Texas Section 168.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Commission" means the Texas Animal Health Commission. (2) "Laboratory" means the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory. (3) "Flock" means poultry and...
• Texas Section 168.002 - Control And Eradication Program
  The laboratory shall promulgate and administer a program to control and eradicate pullorum disease and fowl typhoid, with standards at least as stringent as those...
• Texas Section 168.003 - Administration Of Program; Search Warrant
  (a) In administering the program, the laboratory may: (1) require the registration of hatcheries and hatchery supply flocks; (2) examine, test, monitor, and collect samples...
• Texas Section 168.004 - Quarantine And Disposal
  (a) If the laboratory determines that any part of a flock is infected, it shall certify that information to the commission, and the commission shall...
• Texas Section 168.005 - Public Exhibition
  A person may not enter poultry in public exhibition unless the stock originates from a flock or hatchery free of pullorum disease and fowl typhoid...
• Texas Section 168.006 - Assistance By Flock Owner
  The owner of a flock shall assist the laboratory and the commission in handling the poultry and shall pen and present the flock on request....
• Texas Section 168.007 - No Fee Charged
  Neither the laboratory nor the commission may charge a fee for testing or laboratory examination provided for under this chapter. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p....
• Texas Section 168.008 - Penalty
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person refuses to: (1) comply with an order of the commission or laboratory concerning an infected flock;...

Last modified: September 28, 2016