Tex. Health and Safety Code § 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.