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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 433.091

FALSE REPORT; FAILURE TO REPORT; CRIMINAL PENALTY

Known as the Texas Meat and Poultry Inspection Act

The act spans §§ 433.001 to 433.100 (64 sections).

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff

(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally:

(1) makes or causes to be made a false entry in an account, record, or memorandum kept by a person subject to this chapter;

(2) neglects or fails to make or cause to be made full entries in an account, record, or memorandum kept by a person subject to this chapter of all facts and transactions pertaining to the person's business;

(3) removes from the jurisdiction of this state or mutilates, alters, or otherwise falsifies documentary evidence of a person subject to this chapter; or

(4) refuses to submit to the department, for inspection and copying, documentary evidence in the person's possession or control of a person subject to this chapter.

(b) An offense under this section is punishable by a fine of not less than $1,000 or more than $5,000, imprisonment for not more than three years, or both.

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