California · Fish and Game Code - FGC
FGC §15406.7: (a) In addition to the rent provided in Section 15406.
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(a) In addition to the rent provided in Section 15406.5, every person operating under an oyster lease shall pay a privilege tax of four cents ($0.04) per packed gallon, or fraction thereof, of shucked oysters harvested by the lessee. (b) If the oysters are marketed in the shell, the tax shall be based on the equivalent yield of shucked oyster meat. In determining the yield of oysters, it shall be deemed that 100 oysters are equivalent to one packed gallon of shucked oyster meat. (c) The tax imposed by this section is the exclusive privilege tax that shall be imposed on lessees of state water bottoms for oyster cultivation, notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 15003.
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