Texas Agriculture Code
§ 161.049 — DEALER RECORDS
AG § 161.049Title 6. PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, AND SALE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTS · Part C. CONTROL OF ANIMAL DISEASES AND PESTS · Ch. 161. GENERAL DISEASE AND PEST CONTROL · Art. C. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMISSION
Statute text
View on source(a)In this section, "dealer" means a person engaged in the business of buying or selling animals in commerce:
(1)on the person's own account;
(2)as an employee or agent of the vendor, the purchaser, or both; or
(3)on a commission basis.
(b)A "dealer" as defined by Subsection (a) of this section does not include a person who buys or sells animals as part of the person's bona fide breeding, feeding, dairy, or stocker operations but does include livestock markets and commission merchants.
(c)The commission may require a livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl, or exotic fowl dealer to maintain records of all livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl, or exotic fowl bought and sold by the dealer.
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 836, Sec. 15, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 554, Sec. 17, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.