Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4623 – Exemption from Chapter
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4623
- Commission: means the Commission of Weights and Measures. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
- Department: means the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
- Net weight: means the weight of the commodity excluding any materials, substances, or items not considered to be part of the commodity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
A. This Chapter does not in any way apply to or affect the provisions pertaining to the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Commission or the storage, handling, sale, transportation, or distribution of liquefied petroleum gas and the measures used in connection therewith as provided in La. Rev. Stat. 40:1841 et seq.
B. This Chapter does not apply to platform scales used solely for safety purposes in connection with the distribution of liquefied petroleum gas; however, this does not prevent the department from entering into any cooperative endeavor or cooperative agreement with the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Commission to certify or register such scales.
C.(1) This Chapter does not apply to the sale of an aggregate of twenty thousand bushels or less per year of shelled field corn made directly from a producer to a purchaser.
(2) This Chapter does not apply to the sale of an aggregate of more than twenty thousand bushels per year of shelled field corn if the net weight of the shelled field corn is verified by a National Type Evaluation Program (NTEP) certified scale prior to distribution of the shelled field corn.
Acts 1992, No. 55, §1; Acts 2003, No. 139, §1, eff. May 28, 2003; Acts 2004, No. 47, §1, eff. May 21, 2004; Acts 2018, No. 155, §1; Acts 2019, No. 337, §1.