776                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 235

be prescribed by the Superintendent; shall provide a suitable office
for the sealer; shall make provision for the necessary clerical
services, supplies and transportation, and for defraying contingent
expenses, incident to the official activities of the sealer in carrying
out the provisions of this subtitle. When the secondary standards
of weight and measure required by this section to be provided by
a town, city or county shall have been examined and approved by
the Superintendent, they shall be the official standards for such
town, city or county.

17.    Joint city and county jurisdictions.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 13, 14, 15, and 16 of
this subtitle, a county and one or more cities situated therein, each
of which would otherwise be [required] permitted by Section 13
of this subtitle to appoint a sealer, may establish a joint county-city
weights and measures jurisdiction under an agreement between the
governing body of the county and the governing bodies of such
cities, with one sealer and one set of standards and equipment.
When such a joint county-city jurisdiction is established, the pro-
visions of Section 13 of this subtitle relative to the appointment,
removal, discharge, and reduction in pay and position of sealers
and deputy sealers shall be observed except that in every case joint
action of the county and the city or cities forming the joint juris-
diction shall be required. A sealer, and deputy sealers, appointed
pursuant to the provisions of this section shall have the same powers
and duties as though appointed separately in and for the county and
city or cities forming the joint jurisdiction.

18.    Method of sale of commodities—In general.

[Commodities in liquid form shall be sold only by liquid measure
or by weight, and commodities not in liquid form shall be sold only
by weight, by measure or length of area, or by count. Provided,
that the provisions of this section shall not apply to commodities
when sold for immediate consumption on the premises where sold,
to vegetables when sold by the bunch, or to commodities when in
package form or in containers standardized by a law of this State
or by federal law.] Commodities in liquid form shall be sold only by
liquid measure or by weight, and, except as otherwise provided in
this subtitle, commodities not in liquid form shall be sold only by
weight, by measure, of length or area, or by count. Provided, that
liquid commodities may be sold by weight and commodities not in
liquid form may be sold by count only if such methods give accu-
rate information as to the quantity of commodity sold. And pro-
vided further, that the provisions of this section shall not apply
(1) to commodities when sold for immediate consumption on the
premises where sold, (2) to vegetables when sold by the head or
bunch, (3) to commodities in containers standardized by a law of
this State or by federal law, (4) to commodities in package form
when there exists a general consumer usage to express the quan-
tity in some other manner, (5) to concrete aggregates, concrete
mixtures, and loose solid materials such as earth, soil, gravel,
crushed stone, and the like, when sold by cubic measure, or (6) to
unprocessed vegetable and animal fertilizer when sold by cubic
measure. The Superintendent may issue such reasonable regulations
as are necessary to assure that amounts of commodity sold are