Sec. 341.018. RODENT CONTROL


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  • (a) A person who possesses an enclosed structure used or operated for public trade and who knows that the structure is infested with rodents shall:

    (1) attempt to exterminate the rodents by poisoning, trapping, fumigating, or other appropriate means; and

    (2) provide every practical means of eliminating rats in the structure.

    (b) A public building that is constructed after September 4, 1945, must incorporate rat-proofing features.

    (c) The board shall promote rodent control programs in rat-infested areas and in localities in which typhus fever has appeared.

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