Texas Agriculture Code

§ 80.022 — AUTHORITY TO ADOPT RULES

AG § 80.022Title 5. PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, AND SALE OF HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS · Part B. HORTICULTURAL DISEASES AND PESTS · Ch. 80. OFFICIAL CITRUS PRODUCERS' PEST AND DISEASE

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(a)The commissioner shall adopt rules to protect individuals, livestock, wildlife, and honeybee colonies on any premises in a pest management zone on which citrus plants are being grown that have been or are being treated to control or suppress pests.

(b)Rules adopted under this section shall establish the criteria by which the corporation develops its procedures and methods of treatment, which shall:

(1)establish a methodology for determining when pest population levels have reached economic significance or when disease is present;

(2)establish an effective treatment regimen that seeks to provide the least possible risk to workers, the public, and the environment;

(3)minimize the effects of the use of pesticides on long-term control methods, including but not limited to the effect a particular pesticide may have on biological controls;

(4)establish methods for monitoring pests;

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Legislative history

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 29 (S.B. 1749), Sec. 11, eff. September 1, 2015.