macOS: bash error: declare: -A: invalid option

[jerome@jeroboam] > ./avws-stores.sh 
+++ dirname ./avws-stores.sh
++ cd .
++ pwd
+ SCRIPT_DIR=/Users/jerome/src/boss-sms-vas/release
+ REPO_NAME=boss-sms-vas-stores
+ declare -A AWS_S3_BUCKETS
./avws-stores.sh: line 16: declare: -A: invalid option
declare: usage: declare [-afFirtx] [-p] [name[=value] ...]

Reason: The standard macOS bash version is an antiquity.
Source: Upgrading Bash on macOS

[jerome@jeroboam] > brew install bash
[jerome@jeroboam] > sudo vi /etc/shells

/bin/bash
/bin/csh
/bin/ksh
/bin/sh
/bin/tcsh
/bin/zsh
/usr/local/bin/bash

[jerome@jeroboam] > chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash