Agriculture Code § 76.114

Sec. 76.114. RECORDS. (a) A regulatory agency shall require each commercial and noncommercial applicator licensee to maintain records of all pesticide applications. The department may require each commercial or noncommercial applicator licensee to keep records of the licensee's application of a specific restricted-use or state-limited-use pesticide or regulated herbicide and may require those records to be kept separate from other business records. The regulatory agency by rule shall prescribe the information to be entered into the records. (b) Each private applicator shall maintain records of regulated herbicide and state-limited-use pesticide applications and shall maintain those records of restricted-use pesticide applications required by federal law. (c) A licensee shall keep records required under this section for a period of two years from the date of the pesticide application. The licensee shall keep these records accessible and available for copying and shall store them in a location suitable to preserve their physical integrity. (d) On written request of the regulatory agency, a licensee shall furnish the department a copy of any requested record pertaining to the application of pesticides. The department may require all persons who apply a regulated herbicide to submit periodically to the department a copy of the records required by this section. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1201, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981; Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 230, Sec. 98, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1369, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.