Texas Agriculture Code

§ 74.120 — AUTHORITY TO ADOPT RULES

AG § 74.120Title 5. PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, AND SALE OF HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS · Part B. HORTICULTURAL DISEASES AND PESTS · Ch. 74. COTTON DISEASES AND PESTS · Art. D. OFFICIAL COTTON GROWERS' BOLL WEEVIL ERADICATION FOUNDATION

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(a)The commissioner shall adopt rules to protect individuals, livestock, wildlife, and honeybee colonies on any premises in an eradication zone on which cotton plants are being grown that have been or are being treated to eradicate the boll weevil or the pink bollworm.

(b)Rules adopted under this section shall establish the criteria by which the foundation develops its procedures and methods of treatment, which shall:

(1)establish a methodology for determining when boll weevil or pink bollworm population levels have reached economic significance;

(2)establish an effective treatment regimen that seeks to provide the least possible risk to workers, the public, and the environment;

(3)minimize the effects of the use of pesticides on long-term control methods, including but not limited to the effect a particular pesticide may have on biological controls;

(4)establish methods for monitoring boll weevils, pink bollworms, and secondary pests;

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Legislative history

Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 848 (S.B. 703), Sec. 56(6), eff. September 1, 2021.