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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Health and Safety Code § 341.018: RODENT CONTROL.

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  1. HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
  2. TITLE 5. SANITATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
  3. SUBTITLE A. SANITATION
  4. CHAPTER 341. MINIMUM STANDARDS OF SANITATION AND HEALTH PROTECTION MEASURES
  5. SUBCHAPTER B. NUISANCES AND GENERAL SANITATION

(a) A person who possesses an enclosed structure used or operated for public trade and who knows that the structure is infested with rodents shall:

(1) attempt to exterminate the rodents by poisoning, trapping, fumigating, or other appropriate means; and

(2) provide every practical means of eliminating rats in the structure.

(b) A public building that is constructed after September 4, 1945, must incorporate rat-proofing features.

(c) The department shall promote rodent control programs in rat-infested areas and in localities in which typhus fever has appeared.

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. 3.0862, eff. April 2, 2015.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:17Z. Source file · JSON

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