§ 21-15-17. Packers’ fees.
The packers of fish shall be paid for opening, assorting, inspecting, weighing, pickling, packing, or repacking, heading up, nailing, and giving a certificate, if pickled codfish or mackerel, twenty cents ($0.20) for every barrel and fifteen cents ($0.15) for every half barrel by the owner of the fish; provided, that for all pickled codfish or mackerel which have been inspected in one of the United States and which shall not in the judgment of the packer require repacking, the owner shall only pay to the packer twenty cents ($0.20) for unheading, inspecting, reheading, branding, nailing, and giving a certificate of the work, and for all other, except codfish and mackerel, the owner of the fish shall pay the packer twenty-five cents ($0.25) for every cask.
History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 134, § 17; G.L. 1909, ch. 160, § 17; G.L. 1923, ch. 190, § 17; G.L. 1938, ch. 380, § 17; G.L. 1956, § 21-15-17.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Section 21-15-1. - Duties of packers.
Section 21-15-2. - Packer’s bond.
Section 21-15-3. - One kind of fish in cask.
Section 21-15-4. - Construction, size, and packing of casks.
Section 21-15-5. - Inspection and branding of casks.
Section 21-15-6. - Branding of codfish casks as to quality.
Section 21-15-7. - Grading of mackerel — Bloaters.
Section 21-15-8. - Number one mackerel.
Section 21-15-9. - Number two mackerel.
Section 21-15-10. - Number three mackerel.
Section 21-15-11. - Number four mackerel.
Section 21-15-12. - Stamping as to quality of mackerel.
Section 21-15-13. - Sales and shipments by fishermen unaffected.
Section 21-15-14. - Sale or export of pickled fish not approved and branded.
Section 21-15-15. - Transfer of fish from branded casks — Misbranding.