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Agriculture Code § 12A.001
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The general licensing, regulatory, and enforcement provisions of Chapter 12 and this chapter apply to licensing and regulatory programs administered by the department under any law.
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The general licensing, regulatory, and enforcement provisions of Chapter 12 and this chapter apply to licensing and regulatory programs administered by the department under any law.
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The commissioner may issue a cease and desist order against an unlicensed person who is violating a licensing- or department-regulated activity rule, after notice and a hearing.
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The department may do extra risk-based inspections of persons it regulates and may waive inspection requirements in emergencies or to fit complaint investigations and inspection schedules.
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The department must create and publish an annual inspection-and-enforcement plan, ask stakeholders for input, keep accurate activity records, include those records in the plan, and post each plan online by the specified deadline.
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The department must carry out licensing-authority duties for licenses it issues, including issuing guidelines under Section 53.025.
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The department must explain its complaint and enforcement process and give certain complaint information to license holders, except for protected confidential or privileged information.
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The department must analyze complaints and discovered violations to identify trends or issues.
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The department must issue a replacement license to a license holder whose license was lost, destroyed, or whose name changed, if the holder submits an application and a fee set by department rule.
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The department must adopt testing procedures policies and post them on its website for each licensing examination it administers.
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The department must periodically evaluate licensing exam questions for how well they objectively assess an applicant’s knowledge.
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The department must adopt procedures for informal proceedings and offer license holders an informal settlement conference by telephone.
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This section defines several terms used in the chapter, including commercial weighing or measuring device, operator/user, sell, weighing or measuring device, and weight or measure of a commodity.
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The department must enforce this chapter and supervise weighing or measuring devices sold or offered for sale in the state.
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A person who violates Subchapter B or C, or a rule adopted under them, may face a civil penalty of up to $500 per violation, and continuing violations may count separately by day.
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Sets the commodity weight-or-measure standard, lets the department adopt implementing rules, and says contracts and device adjustments must follow these standards unless an express contract says otherwise.
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This section sets yard-based measurement standards for length, surface, and land measures.
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This section sets the standard for weight using avoirdupois and troy weights, and defines several related measurements.
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The standard unit for liquid capacity is the gallon.
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The provision sets the standard capacity measure for solids as the half bushel and gives related measure conversions and filling rules for dry commodities.
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This section defines what a “cord” is, including a cord of wood for fuel.