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The chief apiary inspector must publish and make available public information about bee disease treatment, agency functions, and how complaints are filed and resolved.
The chief apiary inspector must keep an information file for each complaint, and the inspector must give the parties quarterly status updates on certain written complaints unless an undercover investigation would be jeopardized.
The chief apiary inspector must develop policies that give the public a reasonable chance to appear before the inspector and speak on issues within the inspector’s jurisdiction.
The chief apiary inspector must try to set chapter fees at a level that brings in about half of the inspector’s total budget.
The chief apiary inspector may make rules and take enforcement actions to control bee diseases and pests, block certain bee-related shipments into the state, and seize, destroy, treat, or sell specified bee-related items in some cases.
The chief apiary inspector may declare certain quarantines, and people may not move or ship bees, equipment, pollen, or honey into or out of a quarantined area except under the inspector’s rules.
A person may not sell or offer for sale certain bees or queen cells in this state unless they are accompanied by a specified certificate or affidavit.
The chief apiary inspector must decide whether seized bees, equipment, pollen, or honey are treated, destroyed, or sold at public auction, and must give notice before doing so.
The chief apiary inspector must publish a list of reportable diseases and pests, and a beekeeper who knows a colony has one of those must immediately report all known facts to the chief apiary inspector.
Bees or equipment may not be shipped into or out of Texas without a permit from the chief apiary inspector, and related applications, inspections, fees, and quarantine rules apply.
To get a certificate of inspection for bees, equipment, pollen, or honey, a person must ask the chief apiary inspector for the inspection.
Beekeepers may register annually with the chief apiary inspector, and the registration must include required information and the counties where the beekeeper operates.
Fees collected under this subchapter must be deposited in the State Treasury, and the chief apiary inspector may sue to collect a delinquent fee.
A person may not operate an apiary in this state unless the hives are marked, branded, or identified by a weatherproof sign.
The chief apiary inspector must keep a registration system for beekeeper brands and must assign a brand number to a beekeeper if requested when the beekeeper registers under Section 131.045.
The chief apiary inspector must register a brand for an applicant who applies and pays the recording fee, and must set that fee at a reasonable amount of at least 50 cents.
A hive’s name or brand must be permanently marked on it in a way that identifies the hive, using burning, pressing, painting, or another permanent method.
A brand may be transferred only if the chief apiary inspector approves it and the transferor is selling all bees and equipment to the recipient.
A person may not label or sell certain products as honey unless the product consists exclusively of pure honey.
A person may not label, sell, keep, expose, or offer for sale a honey-like product with a bee, hive, or comb image on its label unless it consists exclusively of pure honey.
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