Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.35 – Commercial seafood permit fee
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.35
- Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health except in instances of the issuance of licenses and the collection of fees from transporters and haulers of sewage sludge or biosolids, when "department" means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.31
A. The department shall charge and collect an annual commercial seafood permit fee to partially support the cost of inspection, monitoring, sampling, and laboratory analysis as mandated by the state Sanitary Code. The fee shall be collected from each seafood distributor and processing plant based on gross revenues of the plant or distributor as follows:
Revenues Annual fee
$1,000,000 and under $ 150.00
$1,000,001 – $2,500,000 250.00
$2,500,001 – $5,000,000 350.00
over $5,000,000 500.00
B. The department shall charge and collect a shellfish transplant permit fee of one hundred dollars.
C. The department shall charge and collect an imported seafood safety fee of one hundred dollars annually from each holder of a commercial seafood permit fee who sells imported seafood. The proceeds of such fee shall be used for the purposes described in La. Rev. Stat. 40:5.10.1.
Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 125, §1, eff. July 1, 2000; Acts 2021, No. 306, §1.