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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 825.021: COMMISSIONERS COURT MAY PURCHASE POISON.
Where this section sits in the code
- HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
- TITLE 10. HEALTH AND SAFETY OF ANIMALS
- CHAPTER 825. PREDATORY ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PESTS
- SUBCHAPTER B. PURCHASE OF POISON TO DESTROY CERTAIN ANIMAL PESTS
(a) The commissioners court of a county may purchase poisons and related accessories required by citizens of the county to destroy prairie dogs, wildcats, gophers, ground squirrels, wolves, coyotes, rats, English sparrows, and ravens.
(b) The commissioners court may furnish the poison to citizens of the county free or at cost.
(c) The commissioners court shall pay for the poison from the general fund of the county and shall deposit the proceeds of any sale to the credit of that fund.
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
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