Sec. 74.010.  REGULATION OF COTTON PESTS;  QUARANTINES.  (a)  If, under prior law, the department proclaimed a quarantine against infested territory, no person may import into Texas from the quarantined territory a substance susceptible to cotton pest infestation.
(b)  The department shall maintain a rigid inspection of substances susceptible to cotton pest contamination that are being carried from quarantined territory into, through, or within this state.
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1175, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.  Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 847, Sec. 3, eff. Aug. 30, 1993.  Renumbered from Sec. 74.054 and amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 957, Sec. 7, eff. June 16, 1995.