Texas Agriculture Code Title 5, Chapter 103 - Produce Recovery Fund

• Texas Section 103.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the Produce Recovery Fund Board. (2) "Fund" means the produce recovery fund. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1274, ch....
• Texas Section 103.002 - Fund
  (a) The produce recovery fund is a special trust fund with the comptroller administered by the department, without appropriation, for the payment of claims against...
• Texas Section 103.003 - Board
  (a) The Produce Recovery Fund Board is composed of five members appointed by the commissioner. Two members must be producers, one must be a license...
• Texas Section 103.004 - Duties Of The Board
  (a) The board shall: (1) advise the department on all matters relating to the fund, including the fund's budget and the revenues necessary to accomplish...
• Texas Section 103.005 - Initiation Of Claim
  (a) A person who deals with a license holder or a person required to be licensed under Chapter 101 in the purchasing, handling, selling, and...
• Texas Section 103.0055 - Bankruptcy Of Merchant Or Retailer
  For purposes of this chapter, the amount due an aggrieved party by a license holder or a person required to be licensed is not affected...
• Texas Section 103.006 - Investigation; Hearing On Claim
  (a) After a claim is initiated, the department shall investigate the complaint and determine the amount due the aggrieved party. If the amount determined by...
• Texas Section 103.007 - Payment Of Claim
  (a) If the amount determined by the department's investigation to be due the aggrieved party is not disputed by the license holder, a person required...
• Texas Section 103.008 - Limits On Claim Payments
  (a) In making payments from the fund the department may pay the aggrieved party the full value of their validated claim, subject to Subsections (b)...
• Texas Section 103.009 - Reimbursement Of Fund And Payment To Complaining Party By Licensee
  (a) If the department pays a claim against a license holder or a person required to be licensed, the license holder or person required to...
• Texas Section 103.010 - Subrogation Of Rights
  If the department pays a claim against a license holder or a person required to be licensed, the department is subrogated to all rights of...
• Texas Section 103.011 - Fee
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, a license holder licensed under Chapter 101 shall pay an annual fee to the fund as provided...
• Texas Section 103.012 - Rules
  With the advice of the board, the department shall adopt rules, consistent with this chapter, for the payment of claims from the fund. Acts 1981,...
• Texas Section 103.013 - Penalty For Failure To Pay Fee
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person acts or assumes to act as a license holder under Chapter 101 without first paying the...
• Texas Section 103.014 - Penalty For False Claims
  (a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to obtain a benefit for himself or to harm another, he: (1) institutes a claim under...
• Texas Section 103.015 - Civil Penalty; Injunction
  (a) A person who violates this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter is liable to the state for a civil penalty not to...
• Texas Section 103.016 - Board Conflict Of Interest
  (a) An officer, employee, or paid consultant of a Texas trade association in the field of agriculture may not be a member of the board....
• Texas Section 103.017 - Removal Of Board Member
  (a) It is a ground for removal from the board if a member: (1) does not have at the time of appointment the qualifications required...
• Texas Section 103.018 - Qualifications And Standards Of Conduct
  The commissioner or the commissioner's designee shall provide to members of the board, as often as necessary, information regarding their qualification for office under this...
• Texas Section 103.019 - Board Member Training
  (a) Before a member of the board may assume the member's duties, the member must complete at least one course of the training program established...

Last modified: September 28, 2016