Tex. Agric. Code § 13.024 · Subchapter B. STANDARD WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
STANDARD FOR LIQUID CAPACITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The standard unit of measure of capacity for liquids is the gallon.
(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.
(d) Repealed by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1219 (S.B. 2119), Sec. 10, eff. June 14, 2019.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
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. June 14, 2019.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AG/htm/AG.13.htm
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