{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-144.079","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 144.079","heading":"PROHIBITED ACTS.","body":"(a) A person may not receive, hold, slaughter, butcher, or otherwise process any animal as food for human consumption in a building or compartmented area of a building used as a rendering establishment or related station.\n(b) A person may not steal, misappropriate, contaminate, or damage recyclable cooking oil or containers of recyclable cooking oil.\n(c) A renderer, hauler, or any other person may not knowingly take possession of stolen recyclable cooking oil.\nActs 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 485, Sec. 22, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.\nAmended by:\nActs 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 838 (S.B. 202), Sec. 3.011, eff. September 1, 2015.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 2. HEALTH","SUBTITLE G. LICENSES AND OTHER REGULATION","CHAPTER 144. RENDERERS","SUBCHAPTER G. ADMINISTRATIVE AND ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS; PENALTIES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.144.htm#144.079","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"4ac09aeb7101fe56ccfda8db908d17b26c96b84334660425e179644dc3f2e50a","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-144.078","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-145.002"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}