{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-433.051","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 433.051","heading":"SLAUGHTER OR PREPARATION NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH CHAPTER.","body":"A person, at an establishment preparing articles only for intrastate commerce, may not slaughter a livestock animal or prepare a carcass, part of a carcass, meat, or a meat food product of a livestock animal, capable of use as human food, except in compliance with this chapter.\nActs 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 6. FOOD, DRUGS, ALCOHOL, AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES","SUBTITLE A. FOOD AND DRUG HEALTH REGULATIONS","CHAPTER 433. TEXAS MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION ACT","SUBCHAPTER D. MISCELLANEOUS PROHIBITIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.433.htm#433.051","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"65f7bb026310e22d085f5491fe763b302da2cff626f29a94911a3405e575662a","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-433.045","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-433.052"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}