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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 714.002: LIMITATION ON LOCATION OF FEED OR SLAUGHTER PENS NEAR CEMETERY.
Where this section sits in the code
- HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
- TITLE 8. DEATH AND DISPOSITION OF THE BODY
- SUBTITLE C. CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIES
- CHAPTER 714. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO CEMETERIES
(a) The maintenance or location of a feed pen for hogs, cattle, or horses, a slaughter pen, or a slaughterhouse 500 feet or nearer to an established cemetery in a county with a population of at least 525,000 is a nuisance.
(b) The cemetery owner or a lot owner may bring suit to abate the nuisance and to prohibit its continuance. If a nuisance under this section exists or is threatened, the court shall grant a permanent injunction against the person responsible for the nuisance.
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
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