Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3410 – A. No person shall operate a warehouse wherein any agricultural commodities or other farm products are stored and a fee is charged for such storage unless licensed under this Chapter
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3410
- Applicant: means a person or place of business that makes a formal application for a license, permit, certification, registration, or certificate issued pursuant to this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
- Commission: means the Louisiana Agricultural Commodities Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3402
- commodities: means cotton, all agricultural products commonly classed as grain, including rice, rough rice, corn, wheat, oats, rye, soybeans, barley, and grain sorghum, and any other agricultural commodity or other farm product which the commission may, by regulation, declare to be a commodity subject to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3402
- Farm products: means products employed directly in the cultivation, production, or harvesting of any agricultural commodities or containers for agricultural commodities or other farm products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3402
- Person: means any individual, partnership, company, firm, association, cooperative association, corporation, or any other legal entity engaged in any of the activities regulated under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3402
- Warehouse: means any building, structure, or any other protected enclosure required to be licensed by the commission in which agricultural commodities or other farm products are stored for the public for a fee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3402
A. No person shall operate a warehouse wherein any agricultural commodities or other farm products are stored and a fee is charged for such storage unless licensed under this Chapter or under the United States Warehouse Act, as amended.
B. The applicant for a warehouse license shall file the application described in La. Rev. Stat. 3:3408 and demonstrate its competency to engage in the business of operating a warehouse.
C. Each license issued by the commission pursuant to this Section shall specify on the face thereof that it is a warehouse license and shall be posted in all warehouse locations.
D. Each warehouse license issued by the commission shall be valid until June 30 following date of issue and shall be renewed on or before July 1 of each year.
E. The fee for the issuance and the annual renewal of any warehouse license shall be two hundred dollars.
F. Each license shall cover all facilities which are owned or leased by the entity to whom the license is issued and used by the entity in the conduct of its business as a warehouse.
G. Each license shall specify the licensed capacity of each facility covered by the license.
H. No warehouse license shall be issued unless the facility to be licensed is suitable for the storage of the agricultural commodity to be stored therein. The commission may suspend or revoke any warehouse license whenever any licensed facility becomes unsuitable for storage of the agricultural commodity for which it is designed.
I. No person holding a warehouse license shall engage in any other activities regulated under this Chapter unless he holds a license issued by the commission to engage in such activities.
Added by Acts 1982, No. 563, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1983; Acts 1986, No. 1068, §1, eff. July 17, 1986; Acts 2009, No. 24, §1, eff. June 12, 2009; Acts 2010, No. 767, §1, eff. June 30, 2010; Acts 2012, No. 145, §1, eff. May 14, 2012; Acts 2015, No. 430, §1.