Sec. 13.024. STANDARD FOR LIQUID CAPACITY. (a) The standard unit of measure of capacity for liquids is the gallon.
Text of subsection effective until September 01, 2020
(b) Except as provided by Subsections (c) and (d), all other measures of capacity for liquids are derived from the gallon by continual division by two, making half gallons, quarts, pints, half pints, and gills.
Text of subsection effective on September 01, 2020
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), all other measures of capacity for liquids are derived from the gallon by continual division by two, making half gallons, quarts, pints, half pints, and gills.
(c) A mechanism or machine that is adapted to measure and deliver liquid by volume and that indicates fractional parts of a gallon shall indicate the fractional parts either in terms of binary submultiple subdivisions or in terms of tenths of a gallon.
Subsection (d) was repealed by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1219 (S.B. 2119), Sec. 10, eff. June 14, 2019.
(d) For purposes of the retail sale of motor fuel only, the liquid gallon contains 231 cubic inches without adjustment based on the temperature of the liquid.
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1024, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.
Amended by:
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 924 (H.B. 1494), Sec. 3.04, eff. September 1, 2013.
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1219 (S.B. 2119), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2020.
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1219 (S.B. 2119), Sec. 10(2), eff. September 1, 2020.
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