HARRY HUGHES, Governor

3889

AN ACT concerning

Food Products - Sale By Weight - Exceptions

FOR the purpose of allowing the Secretary of Agriculture to
specify whether certain meat, poultry, or seafood products
are offered or exposed for sale or sold by weight; revising
and restating certain exceptions to the requirement that
certain products only be offered or exposed for sale or sold
by weight; excluding condiments from certain provisions of
this Act; allowing certain chicken parts to be sold by
weight, measure, or count; and generally providing for
offering or exposing for sale or selling certain meat,
poultry, or seafood products by weight, measure, or count.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Agriculture

Section ll-311(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Agriculture

11-311.

(a) (1) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN THIS SUBSECTION OR AS
SPECIFIED BY THE SECRETARY, [Any] ANY meat, meat product,
poultry, and all seafood offered or exposed for sale or sold as
food shall be offered or exposed for sale and sold by weight[,
unless it is for immediate consumption on the premises where
sold, it is one of several elements comprising a ready-to-eat
meal as a unit for consumption elsewhere than on the premises, or
it is shellfish].

(2) NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (1)
OF THIS SUBSECTION, THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS MAY BE OFFERED OR
EXPOSED FOR SALE OR SOLD BY WEIGHT, MEASURE, OR COUNT:

(I)  SHELLFISH;

(II)  ITEMS FOR CONSUMPTION ON THE PREMISES
WHERE SOLD;

(III)  ITEMS SOLD AS 1 OF 3 OR MORE DIFFERENT
ELEMENTS, EXCLUDING CONDIMENTS, THAT COMPRISE A READY-TO-EAT MEAL
SOLD AS A UNIT FOR CONSUMPTION ELSEWHERE THAN ON THE PREMISES
WHERE SOLD; AND

(IV)  COOKED AND READY-TO-EAT CHICKEN PARTS THAT