Sec. 341.018.  RODENT CONTROL.  (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 department 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.
Amended by: 
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0862, eff. April 2, 2015.