3.__License limited.__A limited wholesale shellfish harvester's license authorizes activities under this section at only one establishment and with only one vehicle.

4.__Fee.__The fee for a limited wholesale shellfish harvester's license is $100.

Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §6856, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2003, c. 248, §11, is further amended to read:

1. Shellfish sanitation certificate. A person may not undertake the processing, buying, selling, shipping, transporting or shucking of shellfish or whole scallops without a shellfish sanitation certificate unless authorized under section 6701 or 6702. The commissioner may issue a shellfish sanitation certificate to a wholesale seafood license holder, a limited wholesale shellfish harvester's license holder or a shellfish transportation license holder that authorizes the holder to undertake the activities expressly authorized therein, which may include buying and selling, shipping, transporting, shucking or other processing of shellfish or whole scallops. A wholesale seafood license, limited wholesale shellfish harvester's license or shellfish transportation license is also necessary to undertake the activities authorized under those licenses.

Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes effect when approved.

Effective March 24, 2006.