Sec. 433.034. RECORDS

(a) A person engaged for intrastate commerce in any of the following business activities shall keep records of each of the person's business transactions:

(1) slaughtering livestock;

(2) preparing, freezing, packaging, or labeling a livestock carcass or a part or product of a livestock carcass for use as human food or animal food;

(3) transporting, storing, buying, or selling, as a meat broker, wholesaler, or otherwise, a livestock carcass or a part or product of a livestock carcass;

(4) rendering; or

(5) buying, selling, or transporting dead, dying, disabled, or diseased livestock, or a part of a carcass of a livestock animal that died in a manner other than slaughter.

(b) On notice by the commissioner's representative, a person required to keep records shall at all reasonable times give the commissioner's representative and any representative of the United States Secretary of Agriculture accompanying the commissioner's representative:

(1) access to the person's place of business; and

(2) an opportunity to:

(A) examine the facilities, inventory, and records;

(B) copy the records required by this section; and

(C) take a reasonable sample of the inventory, on payment of the fair market value of the sample.

(c) The person shall maintain a record required by this section for the period the commissioner by rule prescribes.

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