Texas Agriculture Code Title 5, Chapter 94 - Citrus Fruit Maturity Standards

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL

• Texas Section 94.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Distributing house" means a place that receives or ships, or a truck or railroad car that carries, citrus fruit that has...
• Texas Section 94.002 - Exceptions
  Except to the extent specifically provided by this chapter, this chapter does not apply to: (1) citrus fruit other than citrus grandis, osbeck, commonly known...
• Texas Section 94.003 - Department To Administer
  (a) The department shall direct and supervise the inspection and certification of maturity of citrus fruit under this chapter. The department shall adopt rules that...

SUBCHAPTER B PACKING HOUSES

• Texas Section 94.005 - Staff And Expenses
  (a) The department may employ a chief of the maturity division. (b) The department may employ a staff that is adequate to enforce this chapter...
• Texas Section 94.011 - Registration
  (a) Each year, the owner, manager, or operator of a packing house that is in operation during the fruit shipping season shall register the packing...

SUBCHAPTER C MATURITY STANDARDS

• Texas Section 94.012 - Notice Of Operation
  After October 14 and before December 17 of each year, the owner, manager, or operator of a packing house shall notify the department in writing...
• Texas Section 94.021 - Grapefruit
  Grapefruit that meet the maturity standards for grapefruit established by rule of the department are mature. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1243, ch. 388, Sec....
• Texas Section 94.022 - Oranges
  Oranges that meet the maturity standards for oranges established by rule of the department are mature. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1244, ch. 388, Sec....

SUBCHAPTER D CITRUS FRUIT INSPECTION

• Texas Section 94.025 - Unfit Citrus Fruit
  (a) Citrus fruit that is immature, unripe, overripe, frozen, frost damaged, or otherwise unfit for consumption may not be sold or offered for sale. (b)...
• Texas Section 94.031 - Inspection
  (a) Grapefruit may not be transported, or prepared, received, or delivered for transportation or market, after July 31 and before December 2 each year unless...
• Texas Section 94.032 - Maturity Stamps
  (a) If the requirements of this chapter are met and the department receives the fee required under this subchapter, the department shall issue maturity stamps...
• Texas Section 94.033 - Inspection Sites
  Citrus fruit shall be inspected and certificates of inspection and maturity issued only at a grove, registered packing house, or distributing house. Acts 1981, 67th...
• Texas Section 94.034 - Inspection At A Grove
  (a) A person may request and is entitled to receive a citrus fruit inspection by the department at a grove. (b) An inspector shall test...
• Texas Section 94.035 - Inspection Fees
  (a) A person who sells or ships grapefruit after July 31 and before December 2 of a year, or early or midseason oranges after July...
• Texas Section 94.036 - Denial Of Certificate
  A department inspector may not issue a certificate of inspection and maturity to a packing house that has not complied with Section 94.011, 94.012, or...
• Texas Section 94.037 - Imported Citrus Fruit
  The department may test citrus fruit brought into this state from any outside area for marketing or sale if there is reason to believe that...

SUBCHAPTER E PENALTIES

• Texas Section 94.038 - Inspection For Substitution And Condemnation Of Unfit Citrus Fruit
  (a) The department may conduct tests of citrus fruit at any location where citrus fruit is offered for sale or for shipment if there is...
• Texas Section 94.051 - Offenses
  A person commits an offense if the person: (1) as a department inspector, falsifies a certificate of inspection and maturity or fails to collect the...
• Texas Section 94.052 - Penalty
  An offense under Section 94.051 of this code is a Class B misdemeanor. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1246, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept....

Last modified: September 28, 2016