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This section requires certain commercial feed manufacturers and distributors to pay inspection fees, sets fee amounts, and lets the director adjust the fee within limits.
Certain feed-facility fee payers must file sworn tonnage reports and pay the inspection fee due with each report.
A person who pays the inspection fee based on tonnage reporting must file the quarterly report or pay the fee by the 31st day after the quarter ends, or a penalty applies.
The service can require licensees to keep records or file extra reports, and licensees must keep required records usable for at least two years unless the service allows otherwise.
Fees collected under this subchapter must be deposited and set aside in the Texas feed control fund.
The service may enter, inspect, open certain containers, and take feed samples to check compliance.
The service must set by rule the procedures for sampling and analysis of commercial feed.
The service may examine and copy records about a lot to identify a sample with that lot.
If the service finds a commercial feed violation, it must notify the manufacturer or other responsible person in writing and may have the sample independently analyzed on request.
The service may place a stop-sale order on commercial feed if it has reasonable cause to believe the feed is being distributed in violation of this chapter.
If a commercial feed under a stop-sale order violates the chapter, the service must ask the local district or county court to condemn and confiscate it, and the court may order correction, sale, or destruction.
The service may issue a written warning for a minor violation if it finds that doing so will serve and protect the public interest.
The service may sue, in the director’s name, to stop a violation of this chapter, and may ask a prosecuting attorney or the attorney general to do so.
The service may sue to recover an inspection fee or penalty due under Subchapter D.
When the service reports a violation of this chapter, the relevant district attorney, criminal district attorney, or county attorney must start and prosecute appropriate proceedings in the proper court without delay.
This section says where civil actions and criminal prosecutions under this chapter must be brought: in the county where the commercial feed is located when the alleged violation is discovered or made known to the service, except as Section 141.125 provides.
A person at interest who is aggrieved by a service order or ruling may appeal it.
A person commits an offense by violating any provision of this chapter.
A person commits an offense by preparing, manufacturing, or distributing customer-formula feed in violation of the chapter.
A person commits an offense if they distribute commercial feed in violation of the chapter’s rules, labeling requirements, or inspection-fee requirements.
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