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Tex. Agric. Code § 13.039

TESTING OF PACKAGE BY DEPARTMENT

Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1029, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff

(a) The department shall from time to time weigh or measure a package or an amount of any commodity that is kept or offered for sale, sold, or in the process of delivery, in order to determine:

(1) if the commodity is of the amount or quantity represented; or

(2) if the commodity is being offered for sale or sold in accordance with law.

(b) If the department finds that a package or any lot of a commodity contains less of the commodity than the amount represented, the department may seize the package or the commodity as evidence.

(c) A person commits an offense if the person or the person's employee or agent refuses to exhibit a commodity being sold or offered for sale at a given weight or quantity, or ordinarily sold in that manner, to the department for testing and proving as to quantity.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.