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 department, a person required to keep records shall at all reasonable times give the department and any representative of the United States Secretary of Agriculture accompanying the department staff:
(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 prescribed by department rule.
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. 3.1044, eff. April 2, 2015.