{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-364.020","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 364.020","heading":"DEPOSIT OF CERTAIN FOOD WASTE FOR COMPOSTING IN CERTAIN COUNTIES PROHIBITED.","body":"(a) In this section:\n(1) \"Commercial food waste composting ordinance\" means a municipal ordinance that requires a multifamily residential property, a business holding a food permit, or another business owner to divert food waste from disposal in a landfill.\n(2) \"Composting facility\" means a facility that composts source-separated yard trimmings, clean wood material, vegetative material, paper, manure, meat, fish, dead animal carcasses, dairy materials, or meat and vegetable oils and greases from a municipal, commercial, or institutional source.\n(b) Except as provided by Subsection (e), a person may not deposit at a composting facility located in a county that does not contain a municipality with a commercial food waste composting ordinance food waste that is:\n(1) collected for composting in a municipality that has a commercial food waste composting ordinance; and\n(2) subject to such an ordinance.\n(c) A person is liable for a civil penalty of $1,000 for each violation of Subsection (b).\n(d) The attorney general may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover the civil penalty imposed under this section.\n(e) This section does not apply to:\n(1) an agricultural operation as defined by Section 251.002, Agriculture Code;\n(2) a composting facility located in a county described by Subsection (b) if the commissioners court of the county by resolution or order authorizes the deposit of food waste subject to a commercial food waste composting ordinance at the facility; or\n(3) a composting facility that:\n(A) is authorized to operate under a valid notification issued by the commission on or before January 1, 2025; and\n(B) accepted food waste described by Subsection (b) before January 1, 2025.\nAdded by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1173 (S.B. 2078), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 5. SANITATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY","SUBTITLE B. SOLID WASTE, TOXIC CHEMICALS, SEWAGE, LITTER, AND WATER","CHAPTER 364. COUNTY SOLID WASTE","SUBCHAPTER B. COUNTY SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.364.htm#364.020","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"1810ad5ffcb35aeb554e8eec3b4911ae6d01f52f14eae6b173b1e0ef755201f3","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-364.016","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-364.031"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}