RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 299 (SB 161) 2016 Regular Session Chabert
Prior law required 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.
Prior law exempted 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.
New law retains prior 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))