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Agriculture Code § 11.004
The commissioner is elected for a four-year term.
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Agriculture Code § 11.005
A person seeking election as commissioner or appointment to fill a vacancy must satisfy one of several agriculture-related experience requirements.
- Agricultural experience
- Eligibility criteria
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Agriculture Code § 11.007
The commissioner must appoint a deputy commissioner, and the deputy commissioner must take the required oath and perform assigned duties.
- Government staffing
- Travel expenses
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Agriculture Code § 11.008
Money paid to the department is generally subject to Subchapter F, Chapter 404, Government Code, unless another law provides otherwise.
- Government funds
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Agriculture Code § 111.001
A person who operates a cotton gin in Texas for commercial purposes is called a ginner and is charged with the public use.
- Business classification
- Cotton ginning
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Agriculture Code § 111.002
Each ginner must keep a public record in a book of cotton brought for ginning.
- Agriculture
- Cotton ginning
- Recordkeeping
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Agriculture Code § 111.003
Each ginner must mark each bale of cotton with the bale number, the initials of each claimed owner, and an individual ginner's mark.
- Bale identification
- Cotton ginning
- Recordkeeping
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Agriculture Code § 111.004
Cotton bales must be wrapped, and certain compress operators must bind and tie bales before delivery to a common carrier.
- Baling
- Cotton processing
- Product safety
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Agriculture Code § 111.005
If someone delivers an improperly tied or bound cotton bale to a common carrier, they must forfeit $50 to $250 to the state. The employer, not the employee, has the duty to inspect bales of cotton.
- Cotton handling
- Inspection
- Storage
- Transportation
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Agriculture Code § 111.007
Operating a cotton gin without following the chapter, or a ginner failing required recordkeeping or bale marking, is an offense.
- Cotton gins
- Product marking
- Recordkeeping
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Agriculture Code § 12.001
The department must execute all applicable laws relating to agriculture.
- Government compliance
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Agriculture Code § 12.0011
The department may enter into cooperative agreements with private and governmental entities to carry out its duties under this code.
- Cooperative agreements
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Agriculture Code § 12.0012
The department must notify the Texas Division of Emergency Management when it adopts a quarantine, and then cooperate with that agency on safeguards.
- Quarantine notification
- Safeguards implementation
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Agriculture Code § 12.002
The department must encourage the development and promotion of agriculture, horticulture, and related industries in the state.
- Agriculture development
- Promotion of industries
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Agriculture Code § 12.0025
The department must administer several specified federal and state nutrition programs.
- Nutrition programs
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Agriculture Code § 12.0026
The task force must create and carry out a plan to make locally grown food available in public schools.
- Local agriculture support
- School food procurement
- Task force administration
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Agriculture Code § 12.0027
The department may create a nutrition outreach program, accept gifts and donations for it, and adopt rules to run it.
- Grant funding
- Nutrition outreach
- Rulemaking
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Agriculture Code § 12.0028
The department may not sanction a school district for approved high-school sales of food of minimal nutritional value that meet the listed location and fundraising conditions.
- Meal reimbursement
- Sanctions
- School nutrition
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Agriculture Code § 12.0029
School districts with at least 50% eligible students must provide or arrange a summer nutrition program for 30 days unless waived; the department also has notice, waiver, reporting, and website-posting duties.
- Administrative deadlines
- Reporting
- School nutrition programs
- Waivers
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Agriculture Code § 12.003
The department must encourage the organization of agricultural societies.
- Industry associations
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