§ 4-1018. Oyster measures

   (a) Regulations. -- The Department may adopt regulations governing the size, type, and use of containers used to measure oysters harvested or sold in the State.

(b) Measurement of oysters from shuckers. -- Due to the quantity of water contained in measures of newly shucked oysters, any proprietor or manager of a plant, house, or establishment shall measure oysters as received from the shuckers in a special gallon cup which contains no more than 9 pints. Any device other than this 9 pint gallon cup may not be used to measure any oysters received from shuckers. A Natural Resources police officer shall stamp every 9 pint gallon measure used in measuring newly shucked oysters. A proprietor or manager of any house, plant, or establishment which shucks oysters shall have every 9 pint gallon measure stamped.

(c) Measures for sale of shucked oysters. -- Every shucked oyster sold in the State shall be sold by the standard United States one-half pint, pint, quart, or gallon liquid measure, or by fractions or multiples of these liquid measures.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 66C, § 706; 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., ch. 4, § 1; 1974, ch. 864, § 3; 1988, ch. 6, § 1; 2013, ch. 173.