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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1924
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3032 ARTICLE 97.

ARTICLE 97.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

1. Standards.
2-4. Inspectors of standards; appoint-
ment; duties; bond.
5. Weights and measures to be inspected,
and stamped; penalty.
6. Attendance of inspectors at markets,
towns, inspecting warehouses, etc.;
notice thereof; beams, scales, etc.,
to be adjusted.
7. Record of inspectors, what to show;
sample packages to be examined;
certificates issued.
8. Failure to have beams, scales, weights
and measures inspected and ad-
justed; penalty.
9. Family scale; penalty for using.
10. Inspectors to investigate persons sus-
pected of using false beams, scales,
weights or measures; forfeiture and
sale thereof.
11. Stamped or branded weight or measure
which has been broken; penalty for
using; proviso.
12. Condemned scale, etc.; penalty for
selling, etc.
13-14. Compensation of inspectors.
15. Liquid unit or standard.
16. Dry measure, unit or standard.
17. Bushel standard.
18. Standard of measure for berries, small
fruits and certain nuts.
19. Penalty for violating sec. 18.
20. Standard bushel box or basket for
fruits and vegetables.
21. Standard barrel for green peas and
beans; stamping; penalty.
22. Use of barrel for peas or beans which
has been broken or condemned; pen-
alty.

23. Standard barrels for fruits and vege-
tables.
24. Standard double-head apple barrels.
25. " Short " barrels, baskets or boxes to
be so marked; penalty.
26. Standard weight for grain, hay, straw,
produce and mineral coal.
27. Charges for freight, measurement,
weighing, inspection, wharfage and
commission on grain, how charged;
penalty.
28. Cotton, woolen and dry goods, pack-
ages of, not to contain marks indi-
cating greater contents than actually
exist; penalty; recovery thereof.
29. Standard of weight of tomatoes;
weigher of vegetables; compensa-
tion; duties; refusal to pay accord-
ing to weight; disposal of produce
after weighing and before delivery;
penalties.
30. Short weight or measure; penalty.
31. How fines and forfeitures are recovered
and used.

Apples.

32-46. Grades; marks; size; marking of
packages; misbranded and adulter-
ated packages; offences; prosecu-
tions; penalties; meaning of terms;
application of sub-title; public in-
terest; duty of board of agriculture.

State Board of Agriculture.

47. May inspect scales, weights, etc.

As to fraud in connection with fruit and vegetable packing, see art. 27, sec. 178.
As to weights and measures in connection with coal mining and the wages of miners,
see art. 89, sec. 150, et seq.

 

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