Ch. 133

1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(ii) Items for consumption on the premises where sold;

(iii) Items sold as 1 of [3] 2 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 WHOLE CHICKEN OR chicken parts that
are prepared on the premises.

(b) When meat, poultry, or seafood is combined with or associated with some
other food element to form either a distinctive food product or a food combination, the
food product or combination shall be offered or exposed for sale, and sold by weight, the
quantity representation may be the total weight of the product or combination and a
quantity representation is not required for each element of the product or combination.
[However, ready-to-cook, whole carcass, stuffed poultry, ready-to-cook stuffed poultry
roasts, rolls, bars, and logs, and ready-to-cook stuffed poultry products designated by
terms of similar meaning, the label shall show the total net weight of the poultry product
and, in close proximity, a statement specifying the minimum weight of poultry in the
product.]

11-313.

[When in package form, and when packed, possessed, offered, or exposed for sale
or sold at retail,] WHEN OFFERED OR EXPOSED FOR SALE, wheat flour whole wheat
flour, graham flour, self-rising wheat flour, phosphated wheat flour, bromated flour,
enriched flour, enriched self-rising flour, enriched bromated flour, corn flour, cornmeal,

and hominy-grits shall be [packaged only in units of 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, or 100 pounds, or
multiples of 100 pounds avoirdupois weight. However, this section does not apply to
prepared ready-mixed flours and meals, and special cake flours in packages the net
contents of which are less than 5 pounds] SOLD BY WEIGHT ONLY.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1997.

Approved April 29, 1997.

CHAPTER 133
(Senate Bill 96)

AN ACT concerning

Admissions to State Psychiatric Hospitals - Payment for Services or Treatment

FOR the purpose of providing that a sheriff, county, or Baltimore City is not responsible
for payment of services or treatment rendered as a result of an admission of a
prisoner to a State psychiatric hospital.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 87 - Sheriffs

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