Sec. 13.024. STANDARD FOR LIQUID CAPACITY

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(a) The standard unit of measure of capacity for liquids is the gallon.
(b) The barrel consists of 31-1/2 gallons. A hogshead consists of two barrels. Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section 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.

Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1024, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.

                    
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