Sec. 433.028. REFUSAL TO INSPECT

(a) The commissioner may withdraw or refuse to provide inspection service under this subchapter from an establishment for the period the commissioner determines necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter if the commissioner determines after opportunity for hearing that the applicant for or recipient of the service is unfit to engage in a business requiring inspection under this subchapter because the applicant or recipient, or a person responsibly connected with the applicant or recipient, has been convicted in a federal or state court of a felony or more than one violation of another law based on:

(1) acquiring, handling, or distributing unwholesome, mislabeled, or deceptively packaged food; or

(2) fraud in connection with a transaction in food.

(b) The commissioner's determination and order under this section is final unless, not later than the 30th day after the effective date of the order, the affected applicant or recipient files an application for judicial review in the appropriate court as provided by Section 433.082. Judicial review of the order is on the record from which the determination and order was made.

(c) This section does not affect the provisions of this subchapter relating to withdrawal of inspection services from establishments failing to maintain sanitary conditions or to destroy condemned carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, or meat food products.

(d) For the purposes of this section, a person is responsibly connected with the business if the person is a partner, officer, director, holder or owner of 10 percent or more of the business's voting stock, or managerial or executive employee.

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