Ch. 157

LAWS OF MARYLAND

MEASURING DEVICES ADOPTED BY THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEIGHTS
AND MEASURES AND INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS
HANDBOOK 44 PREVENTS A PERSON FROM USING A COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
SCALE TO MEASURE MINIMUM LOADS OF LESS THAN 1,000 POUNDS ON THE
VEHICLE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1989,

Approved May 5, 1989.

CHAPTER 157

(House Bill 55)

AN ACT concerning

Weights and Measures - Frozen Yogurt

FOR the purpose of repealing the Secretary of Agriculture's
authority to alter the packaging and container sizes for
frozen yogurt that is sold or offered for sale.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Agriculture

Section 11-312(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

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

Article - Agriculture

11-312.

(c) (1) Ice cream, ice milk, French ice cream, French
custard ice cream, frozen custard, frozen dietary dairy dessert,
frozen yogurt, mellorine, parevine, sherbert, water ice, fruit
ice, dietary frozen dessert, quiescently frozen confection, or
quiescently frozen dairy confection, and any products which are
similar in appearance, odor, or taste to such products or are
prepared or frozen as such products are customarily prepared or
frozen, whether made with dairy products or nondairy products,
together with the mixes used in such products and for which a
standard has been promulgated by the Secretary of Health and
Mental Hygiene, shall be deemed a liquid.

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