Texas Agriculture Code Title 5, Chapter 95 - Citrus Fruit Coloring Matter

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 95.001 - Definition
  In this chapter, "coloring matter" means a dye, a liquid, a concentrate, a material containing a dye, or a combination of materials that react to...
• Texas Section 95.002 - Application
  (a) This chapter does not apply to a process or treatment that merely brings out or accelerates the natural color of citrus fruit. (b) This...

SUBCHAPTER B MANUFACTURE, SALE, OR USE OF COLORING MATTER

• Texas Section 95.003 - Department To Administer
  (a) The department shall administer this chapter and adopt rules necessary for its enforcement, including rules to assure that citrus fruit that has been treated...
• Texas Section 95.011 - Certification Of Safety
  (a) Except as provided by this section, a person may not use a dye or color in the manufacture of coloring matter unless it has...
• Texas Section 95.012 - License Required
  A person may not manufacture, use, or offer for use or sale a coloring matter for citrus fruit until the coloring matter is approved and...
• Texas Section 95.013 - Analysis By Department
  (a) A person shall give the formula and a sample of a coloring matter, together with the formula of a noncertified dye used in the...
• Texas Section 95.014 - Bond
  (a) A person who obtains a license under Section 95.012 of this code may not exercise the license until the person executes a bond in...
• Texas Section 95.015 - Notice Of Use
  A person shall notify the department before using or permitting the use of coloring matter on citrus fruit. If forms for that purpose are prescribed...
• Texas Section 95.016 - Standards For Use Of Coloring Matter
  A person may not apply coloring matter to citrus fruits unless the citrus fruit meets the applicable maturity standards established by rule by the department...
• Texas Section 95.017 - Labeling
  (a) Citrus fruit that is treated with coloring matter shall be marked "Color Added" in letters that are at least three-sixteenths of an inch high....

SUBCHAPTER C INSPECTION

• Texas Section 95.018 - Variation From Licensed Coloring Matter
  A licensee or other person may not manufacture or use coloring matter that contains an ingredient that is prohibited under this chapter or that varies...
• Texas Section 95.031 - Periodic Inspection
  (a) The department shall periodically: (1) inspect citrus fruit that has been or is to be treated with coloring matter; and (2) sample coloring matter...
• Texas Section 95.032 - Certificate Of Inspection
  (a) After completing a citrus fruit inspection, the inspector shall issue a certificate of inspection for all citrus fruit that meets the requirements of this...
• Texas Section 95.033 - Noncomplying Citrus Fruit
  (a) Citrus fruit that does not pass inspection prior to coloring shall be packed or otherwise disposed of, in the presence of an inspector, without...
• Texas Section 95.034 - Inspection Fees
  The department shall collect a fee, as provided by department rule, from each person who applies coloring matter to citrus fruit. Acts 1981, 67th Leg.,...

SUBCHAPTER D PENALTIES

• Texas Section 95.035 - Condemnation Of Unfit Citrus Fruit
  (a) Citrus fruit that has been treated with coloring matter but that on inspection fails to comply with this chapter or a rule of the...
• Texas Section 95.041 - Offenses
  A person commits an offense if the person: (1) without complying with this chapter, delivers or receives for transportation, transports, or sells citrus fruit that...
• Texas Section 95.042 - Penalty
  An offense under Section 95.041 of this code is a Class B misdemeanor. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1251, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept....

Last modified: September 28, 2016