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            As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

            (1) “Basket” means a one and one-half bushel circular container that may be used for the measurement of oysters to be sold or purchased.

            (2) “Bulk transfer” means any transfer of motor fuel from one location to another by pipeline tender or marine delivery within a bulk transfer/terminal system, including but not limited to the following:

            (a) A marine vessel movement of motor fuel from a refinery or terminal to a terminal.

            (b) Pipeline movements of motor fuel from a refinery or terminal to a terminal.

            (c) Book transfer of motor fuel within a terminal between licensed suppliers prior to completion of removal across the rack.

            (d) Two-party exchange between licensed suppliers or between licensed suppliers and permissive suppliers.

            (3) “Certificate of conformance” means a document issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or any successor, based on testing in participating laboratories. The document constitutes evidence of conformance of a type with the requirements of National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbooks 44, 105-1, 105-2, or 105-3, or conformance with the requirements of any handbook that may supersede the named handbooks.

            (4) “Commercial weighing and measuring device” means any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring device commercially used or employed in establishing the size, quantity, extent, area, time, distance, or measurement of quantities, things, produce, or articles for distribution or consumption, purchased, offered, or submitted for sale, hire, or award, or in computing any basic charge or payment for services rendered on the basis of weight or measure. Except as otherwise provided, the term shall include scales, weighing devices, and metering and measuring devices commercially used for determining the weight or amount of petroleum products, as well as electricity disbursed by electric vehicle supply equipment. It shall also include any accessory attached to or used in connection with a commercial weighing or measuring device when such accessory is so designed or installed that its operation affects the accuracy of the device.

            (5) “Commission” means the Commission of Weights and Measures.

            (6) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, or his duly authorized representatives acting at his discretion.

            (7) “Commodity” means any service or item, or any combination of items, forming a distinctive product, sold in commerce which is affected by any determination of weight, measure, or count.

            (8) “Correct” as used in connection with weights and measures means conformance to all applicable requirements of this Chapter.

            (9) “Department” means the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry.

            (10) “Director” means the director of weights and measures appointed by the commissioner.

            (11) “Net weight” means the weight of the commodity excluding any materials, substances, or items not considered to be part of the commodity. Materials, substances, or items not considered to be part of the commodity include but are not limited to containers, conveyances, bags, wrappers, packaging materials, labels, individual piece coverings, decorative accompaniments, and coupons, except that, depending on the type of service rendered, packaging materials may be considered to be part of the service. For example, the service of shipping includes the weight of packaging materials.

            (12) “Package” means any commodity packed or packaged in any manner in advance of sale in units suitable for either wholesale or retail sale.

            (13) “Person” means both plural and singular, as the case demands, and includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, companies, societies, and associations

            (14)(a) Except as provided in Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph, “petroleum product” means any refined hydrocarbon mixture including motor oil, kerosene, gasoline, gasohol, diesel fuel, aviation fuel, heating kerosene, and any blend of two or more refined hydrocarbon mixtures except liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas.

            (b) For purposes of enforcement of the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 47:818.111 et seq. regarding taxes on special fuels, “petroleum product” shall include compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and liquefied petroleum gas as those terms are defined in La. Rev. Stat. 47:818.2.

            (15) “Position holder” means the person who holds the inventory position in motor fuel in a terminal as reflected on the records of the terminal operator. A person holds the inventory position in motor fuel when that person has a contract with the terminal operator for the use of storage facilities and terminaling services for motor fuel at the terminal. The term includes a terminal operator who owns motor fuel in the terminal.

            (16) “Primary standards” means the physical standards of the state that serve as the legal reference from which all other standards and weights and measures are derived.

            (17) “Rack” means a mechanism for delivering motor fuel from a refinery, terminal, marine vessel, or bulk plant into a transport vehicle, railroad tank car, or other means of transfer that is outside the bulk transfer/terminal system.

            (18) “Random weight package” means a package that is one of a lot, shipment, or delivery of packages or the same commodity with no fixed pattern of weights.

            (19) “Sale from bulk” means the sale of commodities when the quantity is determined at the time of sale.

            (20) “Seagoing vessel” means a commercial ship, vessel, or barge of greater than fifty gross tons or ships, vessels, or barges in possession of an exemption certificate issued under the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 47:305.1.

            (21) “Secondary standards” means the physical standards that are traceable to the primary standards through comparisons, using acceptable laboratory procedures, and used in the enforcement of weights and measures laws and regulations.

            (22) “Sell or sale” includes barter and exchange.

            (23) “Service person” means any individual who for hire, award, commission, or any other payment of any kind, installs, services, repairs, or reconditions any commercial weighing or measuring devices and is registered under this Part.

            (24) “Service provider” means any person who, for hire, award, commission, or any other payment of any kind, installs, services, repairs, or reconditions any commercial weighing or measuring device and is registered under this Part.

            (25) “Standard package” means a package that is one of a lot, shipment, or delivery, or packages of the same commodity with identical net contents declarations.

            (26) “Vehicle tank” means any vehicle tank, tank truck, tank wagon, or any other container in which gasoline, motor fuel, or any other petroleum products are transported in this state.

            (27) “Weighmaster” means any person who weighs, measures, or counts any commodity and issues a certificate of weight, measure, or count, except retailers who weigh, measure, or count commodities for sale at retail directly to consumers, or a person engaged in the business of public weighing or measuring for hire.

            (28) “Weight” as used in connection with any commodity means net weight; except where the label declares that the product is sold by drained weight, the term means net drained weight.

            (29) “Weights, measures, and weighing and measuring devices” includes all weights, scales, beams, measures of every kind, instruments and mechanical devices for weighing or measuring, scanners or scanning devices that determine product identity and price at the point of sale, electric vehicle supply equipment, and any appliances and accessories connected with any such instruments. However, it does not include or refer to devices used to meter or measure, other than by weight, water, natural or manufactured gas, or electricity, except for electricity used in connection with electric vehicle supply equipment.

            Acts 1992, No. 55, §1; Acts 2003, No. 139, §1, eff. May 28, 2003; Acts 2004, No. 47, §1, eff. May 21, 2004; Acts 2010, No. 495, §1, eff. June 24, 2010; Acts 2015, No. 147, §2, eff. July 1, 2015; Acts 2018, No. 172, §1; Acts 2023, No. 293, §1, eff. June 12, 2023.