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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1939
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HEALTH 1845

commonly used for flavoring articles of food or drink when the same con-
tains any methyl, or wood alcohol; and any person, firm or corporation,
his, their or its agents, employees or officers, violating the provisions of this
section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than
five hundred dollars, or by not less than three months nor more than twelve
months' imprisonment, or by both, in the discretion of the court.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 183. 1912, sec. 160. 1904, sec. 135. 1904, ch. 653, sec. 51A.

184. No person, firm, or corporate body shall manufacture for sale,
sell or deliver, or have in his, her or their possession, with intent to sell or
deliver, any vinegar not in compliance with the provisions of sections 184
and 185. No vinegar shall be marked, branded, sold or exposed for sale as
apple or cider vinegar which is not the legitimate product of pure apple
juice and containing at least one and one-half per cent, of solids, and all
vinegar shall contain not less than three and one-half per cent., by weight
of absolute acetic acid, except when mixed with other articles of food.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 184. 1912, sec. 161. 1904, sec. 136. 1904, ch. 653, sec. 51B.

185. No person, firm or corporate body shall manufacture for sale,
offer for sale, or have in his, her or their possession with intent to sell, or
offer for sale, any vinegar found upon proper test to contain ingredients
injurious to health.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 185. 1912, sec. 162. 1904, sec. 137. 1904, ch. 653, sec. 51C.

186. Every person, firm or corporate body who shall violate any of the
provisions of sections 184 and 185 shall, for every offense, forfeit and pay
not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, which shall
be recoverable, with costs, including expense of inspection and analysis, by
any person suing in the name of the State, as debts of like amount are by
law recoverable; provided, that the state board of health or other health
authority, through its executive officers, together with its deputies, agents
and assistants, shall be charged with the enforcement of sections 184 and
185, and shall have full access to all places of business, factories, mills,
buildings, carriages, cars, vessels, barrels, tanks and packages of whatever
kind used in the manufacture and transportation and sale of any vinegar
or any adulteration or imitation thereof, or any package in which vinegar
is mixed with articles of food. They shall also have power and authority
to open any package, barrel or vessel containing any vinegar or any adulter-
ation or imitation thereof which may be manufactured, sold or exposed for
sale, and they shall also have full power and authority to take samples there-
from for analysis upon tendering the value of said samples; and all charges,
accounts and expenses of the department for the enforcement of sections
184 and 185 through the said executive officer or officers and his or their
deputies, agents, assistants, chemist and counsel employed by him or them
in carrying out said provisions shall be paid by the treasurer of the State in
the same manner as other accounts and expenses of the department are paid;
and all penalties and costs for the violation thereof shall be paid to the
Director of the state board of health, and by him immediately covered into
the state treasury.


 

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