1240                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                       CH. 618

LABELING, MARKING AND CONTAINERS
470H.

(a)  All carcasses, parts of carcasses, and meat food products
inspected at any establishment under the authority of this subtitle
and found to be not adulterated, shall at the time they leave the
establishment bear, in distinctly legible form, directly thereon or on
their containers, as the Board may require, the information required
under Section 470C (p) of this subtitle.

(b)   The Board, whenever such action is necessary for the protec-
tion of the public, may prescribe: (1) the styles and sizes of type to
be used in marking and labeling any articles or animals subject to
this subtitle; and (2) definitions and standards of identity or com-
position for articles subject to this subtitle and fill of container for
such articles.

(c)  No article subject to this subtitle shall be sold or offered for
sale or donated by any person in this State, under any name or other
marking or labeling which is false or misleading, or in any container
of a misleading form or size, but established trade names and other
marking and labeling and containers which are not false or mis-
leading and which are approved by the Board are permitted.

(d)  If the Board has reason to believe that any marking or labeling
or the size or form of any container in use or proposed for use with
respect to any article subject to this subtitle is false or misleading in
any particular, the Board may direct that such use be withheld unless
the marking, labeling, or container is modified in such manner as
may be prescribed so that it will not be false or misleading. If the
person using or proposing to use the marking, labeling, or container
does not accept the determination of the Board, such person may re-
quest a hearing, but the use of the marking, labeling, or containers
shall, if the Board so directs, be withheld pending hearing and final
determination by the Board. Any such determination by the Board
shall be conclusive unless, within thirty days after receipt of notice
of such final determination, the person adversely affected thereby
appeals as provided by Section 255 of Article 4.1 of this Code.

PROHIBITED ACTS
470-I.

The following acts, or the causing thereof, by any person within
this State, are hereby prohibited; except as otherwise provided under
Section 470-0 of this subtitle.

(a)   The slaughter of livestock or the preparation of any carcasses,
parts thereof, or meat food products of livestock in any establishment
conducting such operations solely for intrastate commerce, without
obtaining a license as required by Section 470M of this subtitle.

(b)   The sale, donation, transportation, or offering or receiving for
sale or transportation in this State of (1) any livestock carcass, part
thereof, or meat food product, unless such article has been inspected
to assure its freedom from adulteration and misbranding, in ac-
cordance with the requirements under this subtitle or the Federal
Meat Inspection Act; or (2) any such article which is capable of use
as human food and is adulterated or misbranded at the time of such