WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 3579

purchaser before unloading or attempting to unload the vehicle. The actual
amount of the load of solid fuel being transported or delivered shall not
be less than the weight represented in the delivery ticket or tickets, pro-
vided that in all cases sixty (60) pounds to a ton may be considered as
an allowance for variation in scales and wastage, and the kind and size
of the solid fuel being transported and delivered must be as specified on
the delivery ticket. Any person transporting or delivering solid fuel in
the State of Maryland except in the manner provided for in this section,
shall be deemed guilty of a violation of the provisions of this section, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five
hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment for not more than six (6)
months or by both such fine and imprisonment. Where solid fuel is de-
livered in car load quantity to a single consumer or to one or more con-
sumers who have agreed to divide a car load lot and who are transporting
the solid fuel from the siding or have made arrangements for such trans-
portation, the delivery ticket shall show merely the initial, number and
location of the car from which said fuel was unloaded, the date of delivery
and the name of the person making delivery. Nothing in this section shall
apply to the delivery of coal to or from a boat.
See notes to Secs. 58 and 61.

1937, ch. 349, sec. 46EE. 1939, ch. 401.

61. No person shall make or issue a delivery ticket for solid fuel as
provided in this sub-title unless such solid fuel has been weighed as herein
provided by a Weighmaster duly licensed by the Bureau of Mines. Ap-
plication for a license shall be made upon the form prescribed by the Chief
Mine Engineer, shall state the name and address of the applicant's em-
ployer and shall be verified by the oath of the applicant. In addition the
applicant shall furnish satisfactory evidence of good moral character, and
of ability to weigh accurately, and make correct weight tickets. The Bureau
may issue a license upon the payment of the annual license fee of ten dol-
lars ($10). The license may be renewed for successive periods of one
year each, upon payment of a license fee of ten dollars ($10), which
license shall be kept in the place where the Weighmaster is engaged in
weighing and shall be open to inspection. Every licensed Weighmaster
shall notify the Bureau in writing of any change of the name or address
of his employer. A license may be suspended or revoked by the Chief
Mine Engineer after hearing, upon due notice to the licensee, for dis-
honesty, incompetency, inaccuracy, or any violation of the provisions of
this sub-title. No licensed Weighmaster shall knowingly permit any de-
livery ticket to be used or issued which purports to bear his signature
which was not in fact signed by him or which expresses a weight not ascer-
tained by him, nor shall any person use a delivery ticket not signed by
a licensed Weighmaster, nor knowingly issue or use a delivery ticket which
purports to bear the signature of a licensed Weighmaster, but which was
not in fact signed by such licensed Weighmaster. No licensed Weigh-
master shall weigh up and sign a delivery ticket for any load of solid fuel
unless such load is weighed by him on scales located within the State,
which have been tested, approved, and sealed within twelve months, by
the Bureau of Mines, or, in case of scales located within the City of Balti-
more, by the Division of Weights and Measures of the Department of Public
Works of the City of of Baltimore, and unless within twenty-four hours