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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1939
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3566 ARTICLE 97

each year or oftener if required. It shall also be the duty of the inspector
or inspectors of standards of weights and measures to examine all sample
packages submitted to them for measurement, and if the submitted package
or packages are found to be in conformity with the standard of measure-
ments as provided for by this article, the said inspector or inspectors are to
issue a certificate to the party or parties submitting the sample package
setting forth this fact, which certificate is to be sufficient authority for the
manufacturer of such packages to manufacture and to sell the same.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 8. 1912, sec. 8. 1914, ch. 802.

8. If any person, firm or corporation, or agent, employee, or officer, of
any person, firm or corporation shall refuse or neglect to have his, her,
their or its beams or scales, weights and measures inspected and adjusted
as directed in this Article when required to do so by the proper officer, he,
she, they, or it, shall be fined five dollars for every day during such
delinquency.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 9. 1920, ch. 57.

9. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, or agent,
employee or officer of any person, firm or corporation to have in his, their
or its possession for commercial purposes, any scale designated or com-
monly known as family scales. Any person, firm or corporation, or any
agent, employee or officer of any person, firm or corporation having in his,
her, their or its possession for commercial purposes any such scale, shall on
conviction be subject to a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than
fifty dollars for each offense, provided, that this shall not apply to any
county of which there is no inspector of weights and measures or other
similar official...

An. Code, 1924, sec. 10. 1912. sec. 9. 1914, ch. 802.

10. If any inspector shall be informed or has reason to suspect that
any person, firm or corporation is using, or has in his, her, their or its
possession with fraudulent intention any false beams or scales, or weights,
or measures, he shall examine the same, and if he finds them, or any of
them to be false he shall seize the same as a forfeiture, and adjust, and
sell them at public auction; and shall annually return a statement of the
money received therefor under oath to the County Commissioners of the
County for which he is appointed, or the Comptroller of Baltimore City,
if appointed for said city.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 11. 1912, sec. 10. 1914, ch. 802.

11. If any weight or measure which shall have been stamped or branded
as required by provisions of this Article, shall be broken, injured, altered,
or changed, or condemned by any inspector, and shall be found thereafter
in the use of any person, firm or corporation, or agent, employee, or officer,
of any person, firm, or corporation, within this State, such person, firm,
or corporation, or agent, employee, or officer of such person, firm or corpora-
tion, shall be fined twenty dollars for each and every offense; provided that
this Section shall not apply to the standard quart berry box or basket, nor
to the standard barrel for the measurement in this State of green peas or
beans in the hull.


 

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