{"id":"DUT-TX-016","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Texas","state":"TX","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Texas Legislature (Health and Safety Code ch. 341, Minimum Standards of Sanitation and Health Protection Measures)","authority":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 341.011","instrument":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 341.011","title":"Nuisance","dateIssued":"1989-09-01","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"1989-09-01","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","CLOSE","EMP"],"addressees":["owners or persons in control of premises; specified businesses (restaurants, food markets, bakeries, other places of business handling food)"],"clause":"Each of the following is a public health nuisance:... a restaurant, food market, bakery, other place of business, or vehicle in which food is prepared, packed, stored, transported, sold, or served to the public and that is not constantly maintained in a sanitary condition;... an object, place, or condition that is a possible and probable medium of disease transmission to or between humans.","enforcement":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 341.091 (Ex. DUT-TX-017): misdemeanor, $10 to $200; on a second conviction within a year $10 to $1,000 and up to 30 days\u0027 confinement; each day a separate offense; civil enforcement under § 341.092","functions":[],"notes":"Every place of business serving food to the public was bound to be \u0027constantly maintained in a sanitary condition,\u0027 and any \u0027object, place, or condition\u0027 that was \u0027a possible and probable medium of disease transmission to or between humans\u0027 was a public health nuisance subject to abatement, criminal penalty and civil enforcement under the same chapter; a business premises operated without the sanitation, disinfection and distancing measures the health authorities prescribed answered that description.","sourceUrl":"https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._health_and_safety_code_section_341.011","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":224013,"grade":"primary","character":"sanitary_code_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-TX","url":"/library/DUT-TX-016","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-TX-016","citation":"Texas Legislature (Health and Safety Code ch. 341, Minimum Standards of Sanitation and Health Protection Measures), Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 341.011 (standing) (Ex. DUT-TX-016)","stateName":"Texas","related":["DUT-TX-017"]}