{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-agriculture-code-14.074","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Agriculture Code § 14.074","heading":"PENALTY FOR UNLAWFUL DELIVERY.","body":"(a) A person commits an offense if the person:\n(1) delivers grain out of a public grain warehouse knowing that a negotiable receipt for the grain is outstanding and without possessing that receipt; or\n(2) delivers grain out of a public grain warehouse:\n(A) knowing that a nonnegotiable receipt or scale weight ticket is outstanding;\n(B) without the prior approval of the person lawfully entitled to delivery; and\n(C) without the delivery being shown on the appropriate records of the warehouse operator.\n(b) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that the person's action is:\n(1) a sale or other disposition of grain in lawful enforcement of a warehouse operator's lien;\n(2) a warehouse operator's lawful termination of a storing, shipping, or handling agreement;\n(3) a delivery to the person lawfully entitled to delivery;\n(4) a delivery authorized by prior approval of the person lawfully entitled to delivery and the delivery is shown on the appropriate records of the warehouse operator;\n(5) necessary to prevent destruction of the grain;\n(6) taken under the order of a state or federal court; or\n(7) permitted by a rule of the department necessary to carry out this chapter.\n(c) An offense under this section is a felony of the second degree.\nRenumbered from Sec. 14.030 and amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1124, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.","path":["AGRICULTURE CODE","TITLE 2. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE","CHAPTER 14. REGULATION OF PUBLIC GRAIN WAREHOUSE OPERATORS","SUBCHAPTER H. OFFENSES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AG/htm/AG.14.htm#14.074","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:46:50Z","sha256":"16adb470c668135500e069e5891f2efdc1ba8ae577a653262dbf78ca7854d24d","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-agriculture-code-14.073","next":"us-tx/tex.-agriculture-code-14.075"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}