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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.
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.
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.
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.
The department must carry out licensing-authority duties for licenses it issues, including issuing guidelines under Section 53.025.
The department must explain its complaint and enforcement process and give certain complaint information to license holders, except for protected confidential or privileged information.
The department must analyze complaints and discovered violations to identify trends or issues.
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.
The department must adopt testing procedures policies and post them on its website for each licensing examination it administers.
The department must periodically evaluate licensing exam questions for how well they objectively assess an applicant’s knowledge.
The department must adopt procedures for informal proceedings and offer license holders an informal settlement conference by telephone.
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.
The department must enforce this chapter and supervise weighing or measuring devices sold or offered for sale in the state.
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.
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.
This section sets yard-based measurement standards for length, surface, and land measures.
This section sets the standard for weight using avoirdupois and troy weights, and defines several related measurements.
The standard unit for liquid capacity is the gallon.
The provision sets the standard capacity measure for solids as the half bushel and gives related measure conversions and filling rules for dry commodities.
This section defines what a “cord” is, including a cord of wood for fuel.
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