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Texas Health & Safety Code - Section 433.054. Dead, Dying, Disabled, And Diseased Animals; Animals Dying In Manner Other Than Slaughter

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§ 433.054. DEAD, DYING, DISABLED, AND DISEASED ANIMALS;  
ANIMALS DYING IN MANNER OTHER THAN SLAUGHTER.  (a) If registration 
is required by rule of the commissioner, a person may not engage in 
any of the following businesses, in or for intrastate commerce, 
unless the person has registered with the commissioner:
		(1)  meat brokering or rendering;                                             
		(2)  manufacturing animal food;                                               
		(3)  wholesaling or warehousing for the public 
livestock or any part of a carcass of livestock, regardless of 
whether it is intended for human food;  or
		(4)  buying, selling, or transporting dead, dying, 
disabled, or diseased livestock or part of a carcass of livestock.
	(b)  A registration must include the person's name, each of 
the person's places of business, and each trade name under which the 
person does business.
	(c)  A person may not engage in the business of selling, 
buying, or transporting in intrastate commerce dead, dying, 
disabled, or diseased livestock or part of the carcass of livestock 
that died otherwise than by slaughter unless the transaction or 
transportation complies with rules adopted by the commissioner to 
assure that the animals or unwholesome parts or products of the 
animals are not used for human food.

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.                    

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