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This section restricts when diseased cattle may be sold, released, delivered, or diverted, and requires specific inspection, destination, and paperwork conditions.
Any citizen of this state may sue for an injunction under this section, except for the listed excluded provisions, and a court must give reasonable notice to a defendant in a mandatory injunction case.
If certain nonresident violators are sued under this section, the county attorney must file suit to collect the fine and may attach in-state property; the court may not require a cost or attachment bond.
If a corporation violates most provisions of this chapter, the county attorney must file and prosecute a civil suit against it on behalf of the state.
In covered trials, a person may not try to prove that livestock treatment or vaccination was done by someone other than an authorized representative of the commission.
If someone is required to dispose of a diseased carcass under Section 161.004 and fails to do so as required, that person commits an offense.
A person must not enter certain animals into an exhibition, show, or fair without a required certificate, and owners or persons in charge must not allow that entry.
A person may not remove livestock from a stockyard or railway shipping pen without the required certificate, and the person in charge of the stockyard or pen may not permit that removal.
A person commits an offense by recklessly moving feral swine, or by recklessly allowing someone else to remove feral swine from a holding facility, in a way that does not comply with commission rules.
A person may commit an offense by refusing a commission representative entry to property the person owns, rents, or cares for when the entry is for chapter enforcement.
A person commits an offense by refusing inspection of animals or failing to stop a suspected animal transport when signaled by an agent of the commission.
A person must not refuse or obstruct the commission’s examination of an animal or carcass the commission believes may have a communicable disease.
Owners or caretakers of certain animals must not knowingly refuse to gather them for required testing, identification, inspection, or other commission-rule procedures.
Violating quarantine movement rules, or allowing prohibited movement as an owner or caretaker, is an offense with misdemeanor penalties and, for repeat foot-and-mouth disease quarantine offenses, felony penalties.
A person commits an offense if they mishandle an animal with glanders in the ways listed here.
It is an offense to knowingly move an animal into the state in violation of a commission rule.
A veterinarian who wilfully fails or refuses to follow Subchapter F or a rule under it commits an offense.
People who run a livestock market must not block commission access, move livestock without the required certificate, or violate the listed livestock-market rules; these violations are offenses.
A person commits an offense if they fail to keep or allow inspection of a record required by Section 161.049.
The commission may impose an administrative penalty on a person who violates this subtitle or a related rule or order, up to $5,000 per violation, with separate violations for each day the violation continues.
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