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A person may not act as a livestock commission merchant or livestock auction commission merchant without filing and maintaining the required bond, and violations are offenses.
A person commits an offense if they do not post a copy of their bond as required by Section 147.027.
A livestock commission merchant or livestock auction commission merchant who intentionally refuses to remit livestock sale proceeds as required commits an offense.
Livestock commission merchants and livestock auction commission merchants must not use net livestock-sale proceeds for anything other than remitting them under Section 147.004.
A person commits an offense by violating Section 147.042, and the offense is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $200.
This section defines “slaughterer” as a person who is in the business of slaughtering livestock for profit.
Before acting as a slaughterer, a person must register with the county clerk unless the person slaughters at least 300 head of cattle a day.
A slaughterer must not buy or slaughter unmarked or unbranded livestock for market, and must not buy and slaughter an animal without a bill of sale or written transfer.
Slaughterers must keep specified livestock purchase/slaughter records, make them available within 24 hours, and preserve them for at least two years.
Slaughterers must make sworn county reports about animals slaughtered, file the reports with the county clerk, and, for cattle or horses, file a monthly record with additional purchase and origin details.
A person is treated as a meat processor under this subchapter if they slaughter cattle, sheep, goats, or hogs and process or package them for sale as meat.
A meat processor or other buyer of cattle, sheep, goats, or hogs for slaughter must pay under the section’s timing and method rules.
Certain cattle, sheep, goats, or hogs buyers and sellers may agree in writing to use a payment method different from Section 148.022.
Payment instruments issued for livestock under this subchapter must be drawn on banks located so they do not artificially delay collection of funds or cause an undue lapse in clearance.
A purchaser who does not pay for livestock, or who delays collecting the payment, must pay the seller the purchase price plus damages, interest, and a reasonable attorney’s fee.
A seller of cattle, sheep, goats, or hogs for slaughter has a lien to secure all or part of the sales price.
If liened livestock, carcasses, or products are mixed with others so identity is lost, the lien extends to all of them; matching liens are pari passu, and the lien is not enforceable against certain buyers without actual knowledge, except as to sale proceeds.
A lien under this subchapter has priority over other liens or perfected security interests in the animal, its carcass, its products, or sale proceeds.
A slaughterer must pay two fees for each horse purchased for slaughter and remit the fees weekly.
An authorized livestock-inspection department, agency, or association must inspect each horse handled through a slaughterhouse for identification purposes.
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