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2016 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 161
BY SENATOR CHABERT
SEAFOOD. Provides for exceptions from the retail seafood dealer's license. (8/1/16)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 56:306.1(B)(6), relative to retail seafood dealer's licenses; to
3 provide for exceptions for restaurants and retail grocers from the retail seafood
4 dealer's license requirements; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 56:306.1(B)(6) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง306.1. Retail seafood dealer's license; place of business; employees; retail
8 out-of-state crab shipping license
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10 B.
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12 (6) Restaurants and retail grocers who only purchase fish, whether fresh,
13 frozen, processed, or unprocessed, from a licensed wholesale/retail seafood dealer
14 and only sell such fish fully prepared by cooking for immediate consumption by the
15 consumer need not be licensed in compliance with the provisions of this Section.
16 Any restaurant or retail grocer who sells fish as described in R.S. 56:306 or 306.1
17 shall be licensed in accordance with the applicable law. All restaurants and retail
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1 grocers shall maintain records as required in this Subpart.
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Curry Lann.
DIGEST
SB 161 Original 2016 Regular Session Chabert
Present law requires a retail seafood dealer's license for anyone buying, acquiring, or
handling any species of fish, whether fresh, frozen, processed, or unprocessed that sells to
a consumer for personal or household use or any person who ships for personal or household
use.
Present law exempts from the retail seafood dealer's license requirement restaurants and
retail grocers who purchase fish from a licensed wholesale/retail dealer and only sell such
fish fully prepared by cooking for immediate consumption.
Proposed law retains present law, except only requires the fish be fully prepared to qualify
for the exemption and removes the cooking requirement.
Effective August 1, 2016.
(Amends R.S. 56:306.1(B)(6))
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.