Sec. 19.006.  RULES.  The department, with the advice of the advisory council, shall adopt standards and rules:
(1)  necessary to administer the citrus budwood certification program and the citrus nursery certification program;
(2)  to regulate the sale of citrus budwood and citrus nursery trees as supplies of certified citrus budwood and certified citrus nursery trees become available; and
(3)  requiring citrus nursery stock sold in the citrus zone to be propagated:
(A)  using certified citrus budwood; and
(B)  in an enclosed structure that:
(i)  is built to specifications as determined by department rule; and
(ii)  has a top and sides that are built to exclude insects that may transmit citrus pathogens.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 358, Sec. 1, eff. June 8, 1995.  Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1117, Sec. 5, eff. June 19, 1997.
Amended by: 
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 166 (S.B. 1427), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2013.