Sec. 433.034. RECORDS. (a) A person engaged for intrastate commerce in any of the following business activities shall keep records of each of the person's business transactions:
(1) slaughtering livestock;
(2) preparing, freezing, packaging, or labeling a livestock carcass or a part or product of a livestock carcass for use as human food or animal food;
(3) transporting, storing, buying, or selling, as a meat broker, wholesaler, or otherwise, a livestock carcass or a part or product of a livestock carcass;
(4) rendering; or
(5) buying, selling, or transporting dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock, or a part of a carcass of a livestock animal that died in a manner other than slaughter.
(b) On notice by the department, a person required to keep records shall at all reasonable times give the department and any representative of the United States Secretary of Agriculture accompanying the department staff:
(1) access to the person's place of business; and
(2) an opportunity to:
(A) examine the facilities, inventory, and records;
(B) copy the records required by this section; and
(C) take a reasonable sample of the inventory, on payment of the fair market value of the sample.
(c) The person shall maintain a record required by this section for the period prescribed by department rule.
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1044, eff. April 2, 2015.
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