H.B. No. 1146
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to statistical reporting by aquatic products dealers.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 66.019(b), (c), and (d), Parks and
1-5 Wildlife Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The department shall prescribe the method or methods
1-7 used to gather information and shall<,> produce<,> and distribute
1-8 any applicable <the> report forms <form>. <The form shall be
1-9 designed to allow for statistical information concerning the
1-10 numbers and quantity by weight of each species taken, the kinds of
1-11 equipment used to take each species, and the name of the body of
1-12 water from which each species was taken.>
1-13 (c) Unless otherwise required by the department, no <No>
1-14 dealer who purchases or receives aquatic products directly from any
1-15 person other than a licensed dealer may fail to file the report
1-16 with the department each month on or before the 10th day of the
1-17 month following the month in which the reportable activity
1-18 occurred. The report must be filed even if no reportable activity
1-19 occurs in the month covered by the report. No dealer required to
1-20 report may file an incorrect or false report. A culpable mental
1-21 state is not required to establish an offense under this section.
1-22 (d) Unless otherwise required by the department, no <No>
1-23 dealer who purchases, receives, or handles aquatic products, other
1-24 than oysters, from any person except another dealer may fail to:
2-1 (1) maintain cash sale tickets in the form required by
2-2 this section as records of cash sale transactions; or
2-3 (2) make the cash sale tickets available for
2-4 examination by authorized employees of the department for
2-5 statistical purposes or as a part of an ongoing investigation of a
2-6 criminal violation during reasonable business hours of the dealer.
2-7 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.