CHAPTER 84
H.P. 157 - L.D. 199
An Act to Allow Wholesale Seafood License Holders to Process Parts of Lobster Tails
Emergency preamble. Whereas, Acts of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and
Whereas, seafood processors have identified new types of products with great potential for success and increased employment; and
Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, therefore,
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 12 MRSA �6862, sub-��2 and 4, as corrected by RR 1991, c. 2, �38, are amended to read:
2. Permitted activity. A lobster tail permit authorizes a wholesale seafood license holder to remove a lobster tails in the shell tail from a lobster and to process that whole lobster tail or portions of that lobster tail under the following conditions.
A. The lobster tails tail or lobster tail portions may only be processed only at the establishment named in the permit.
B. The tails lobster tail or lobster tail portions may only come from a legal sized lobsters lobster, as defined in section 6431.
C. All containers in which lobster tails or lobster tail portions are packed to be sold, shipped or transported must be clearly labeled with the name, address and permit number of the packer.
4. Regulations. The commissioner, in accordance with the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, Title 5, chapter 375, may adopt such regulations as are deemed determined necessary for implementation and enforcement of this section. These regulations may include provisions for determining that lobster tails or lobster tail portions processed by a wholesale seafood license holder under this section were removed by that wholesale seafood license holder from legal sized lobsters and other provisions as may be deemed determined necessary.
Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes effect when approved.
Effective April 11, 1997.
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