SB. 857

VETOES

(d)] Provided the product label has not been altered or changed, a distributor may
not be required to register the brand or trade name of an agricultural liming material or
gypsum which has been registered by another person under this subtitle.

6-407.

(a) Any agricultural liming material or gypsum[, sold, offered, or exposed for
sale] DISTRIBUTED in the State[,] shall have attached to it or be accompanied by an
invoice as provided in § 6-308 bearing a plainly printed statement giving the following
information:                                            

(1) Name of the manufacturer or importer, and the address of [his] THE
MANUFACTURER'S OR IMPORTER'S principal office;

     (2)     Name of the place where manufactured;

               (3)    Brand of trade name of the material;

(4)     Name of the form of the material;

(5)     Net weight, if the material is sold in a package;

(6)     If in a ground or powdered form, fineness of the material showing the
percentage passing the 20 mesh sieve, the 60 mesh sieve, and the 100 mesh sieve;

(7)     Minimum percent of [oxide of calcium (CaO), and of oxide of
magnesium] CALCIUM OR MAGNESIUM EXPRESSED IN EITHER THE ELEMENTAL
FORM OR AS CALCIUM OXIDE (CAO) OR MAGNESIUM OXIDE (MgO), and, in the case
of gypsum; the minimum percent of calcium [sulphate] SULFATE (CaSO4);

(8)     With respect to all burned forms of liming materials, including mixtures
of burned and unburned liming materials, a statement of the total [maximum percent of
oxides, calcium, and oxides of magnesium, which are combined as carbonates] PERCENT

OF CALCIUM AND MAGNESIUM EXPRESSED IN EITHER THE ELEMENTAL FORM OR
AS CALCIUM OXIDE (CAO) OR MAGNESIUM OXIDE (MGO).

(b) [The "word "lime" may not be placed anywhere on a, package containing
agricultural liming material which has less than 60 percent of its total weight in the form
of oxides, or hydroxides of calcium or magnesium. It may be placed in the required
statement of minimum analysis or as part of the name of the company manufacturing or
selling it;

(c)] The information given in the statement is the manufacturer's or importer's
guarantee that the [goods] PRODUCT to which it refers [are] IS of the kind and quantity
or composition and fineness [set forth] INDICATED IN THE STATEMENT.

6-308.                                                                                                       

When [goods] MATERIALS are sold in a package, the information statement shall
be plainly printed on the package, or on a tag or label of a quality and fastened in a
manner that it cannot be detached in handling. When [goods] MATERIALS are sold in
bulk, the statement shall be delivered to the purchaser, either with the invoice or with the
[goods] MATERIALS.

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