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MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-302 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 3 - Regulation of Weights and Measures Generally|Section 11-302 - State Primary Standards

    (a)    Any weight and measure conforming with the standards of the United States for primary standards or otherwise obtained by the State for use as primary standards shall be the State primary standards of weights and measures if approved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.    (b)    The State primary standards shall be maintained in a safe and suitable place in the laboratory of the office of the Secretary and may not be removed from the laboratory, except for repairs or for calibration.    (c)    The traceability of the State primary standards to the United States prototype standards kept by the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall be verified at least once every ten years.    (d)    All secondary standards procured for the enforcement of this title shall be calibrated and verified as accurate according to the State primary standards. Traceability to the State primary standards and services of the laboratory facilities may be made available to any interested person. The Secretary may adopt rules and regulations establishing procedures and reasonable fees for this service.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-303 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 3 - Regulation of Weights and Measures Generally|Section 11-303 - State Secondary Standards and Equipment

    In addition to the State primary standards, the State shall supply secondary standards and equipment necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. The Secretary shall verify the secondary standards upon their initial receipt and afterwards, as often as necessary by comparison with the State primary standards.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-304 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 3 - Regulation of Weights and Measures Generally|Section 11-304 - Method of Sale of Commodities

    (a)    A commodity in liquid form shall be sold only by liquid measure or by weight, except as otherwise provided in this title. A commodity not in liquid form may be sold only by weight, dry measure, length, area, or count. However, a liquid commodity may be sold by weight and a commodity not in liquid form may be sold by count only if these methods give accurate information as to the quantity of commodity sold.    (b)    The provisions of this section do not apply to:        (1)    Any commodity sold for immediate consumption on the premises where sold;        (2)    Vegetables when sold by the head or bunch;        (3)    Any commodity in a container standardized by a law of the State or by federal law;        (4)    Any commodity in package form when there exists a general consumer usage to express the quantity in some other manner;        (5)    Any concrete aggregate, concrete mixture, and loose solid material, such as earth, soil, gravel, crushed stone, and similar materials, when sold by cubic measure; or        (6)    Unprocessed vegetable and animal fertilizer when sold by cubic measure.    (c)    The Secretary may adopt any reasonable rules and regulations necessary to assure that any amount of commodity sold is determined according to good commercial practice and is determined and represented to be accurate and informative to all interested parties.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-305 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 3 - Regulation of Weights and Measures Generally|Section 11-305 - Declarations on Packages; Packages on Which Declaration of Unit Price Required

    (a)    Unless otherwise provided, any commodity in a package form shall bear on the outside of the package a definite, plain, and conspicuous declaration of:        (1)    The identity of the commodity in the package unless the commodity can be identified easily through the wrapper or container;        (2)    The net quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure, or count; and        (3)    In the case of any package possessed, offered, or exposed for sale, or sold in any place other than on the premises where packed, the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor, as the Secretary adopts by rule or regulation.    (b)    (1)    With regard to the declaration required under subsection (a) (2), the qualifying term “when packed”, any words of similar meaning, or any term qualifying a unit of weight, measure, or count, such as, “jumbo”, “giant”, and “full”, that tends to exaggerate the amount of commodity in a package may not be used.        (2)    In addition the Secretary, by rule or regulation, may adopt:            (i)    Reasonable variations including variations below the declared weight or measure caused by ordinary and customary exposure to conditions that normally occur in good distribution practice and that unavoidably result in decreased weight or measure and that occur after the commodity is introduced into intrastate commerce;            (ii)    Exemptions as to small packages; and            (iii)    Exemptions as to commodities put up in variable weights or sizes for sale intact and either customarily not sold as individual units or customarily weighed or measured at time of sale to the consumer.    (c)    In addition to the declarations required by this section, if any commodity is in package form and the package is one of a lot containing random weights, measures, or counts of the same commodity and bearing the total selling price of the package, the commodity shall bear on the outside of the package a plain and conspicuous declaration of the price per single unit of weight, measure, or count.    (d)    Any rule or regulation adopted under this section may not conflict with the provisions of the Code and rules and regulations relating to unit pricing of consumer commodities.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-306 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 3 - Regulation of Weights and Measures Generally|Section 11-306 - Misleading Packages; Advertising Price of Packaged Commodity; Prohibited Qualifying Terms

    (a)    A commodity in package form may not be wrapped deceptively or be in a container made, formed, or filled in a manner that misleads the purchaser in determining the quantity of the contents of the package. The contents of a container may not fall below any reasonable standard of fill the Secretary prescribes for the commodity in question.    (b)    If a commodity in package form is advertised in any manner and the retail price of the package is stated in the advertisement, a declaration of the basic quantity of contents of the package shall be closely and conspicuously associated with the price statement, as is required by law or rule or regulation to appear on the package. However, where the law or rule or regulation requires a dual declaration of net quantity to appear on the package, only the declaration that sets forth the quantity in terms of the smaller unit of weight or measure need appear in the advertisement.    (c)    No qualifying terms, such as, “when packed”, “minimum”, “not less than”, any other terms of similar meaning, nor any term qualifying a unit of weight, measure, or count that tends to exaggerate the amount of commodity in the package may be included as part of the declaration required by this section.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-308 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 3 - Regulation of Weights and Measures Generally|Section 11-308 - Sale by Net Weight

    If any commodity is sold on the basis of weight, the net weight of the commodity shall be used. Every contract concerning any commodity shall be construed in accordance with this section.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-309 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 3 - Regulation of Weights and Measures Generally|Section 11-309 - Misrepresentation of Price; Display of Fractions of a Cent

    (a)    If any commodity or service is sold, offered, exposed, or advertised for sale by weight, measure, or count, the price may not be misrepresented or represented in any manner calculated or tending to mislead or deceive an actual or prospective purchaser.    (b)    If an advertised, posted, or labeled price per unit of weight, measure, or count includes a fraction of a cent, every element of the fraction shall be displayed prominently and the numerals expressing the fraction shall be immediately adjacent to, of the same general design and style as, and at least one half the height and width of any numeral representing the whole cents.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-310 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 3 - Regulation of Weights and Measures Generally|Section 11-310 - Meat, Poultry, and Seafood

    (a)    (1)    Except as provided in this subsection or as specified by the Secretary, 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.        (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 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.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-311 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 3 - Regulation of Weights and Measures Generally|Section 11-311 - Butter, Oleomargarine, and Margarine

    Butter, oleomargarine, and margarine shall be offered and exposed for sale and sold by weight.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-312 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 3 - Regulation of Weights and Measures Generally|Section 11-312 - Fluid Dairy Products; Cottage Cheese, Cottage Cheese Products, Sour Cream, and Yogurt; Ice Cream, Ice Milk, Etc

    (a)    All fluid dairy products, including whole milk, skimmed milk, cultured milk, sweet cream, and buttermilk shall be sold by fluid volume.    (b)    Cottage cheese, cottage cheese products, sour cream, and yogurt shall be sold by weight.    (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, shall be kept, offered, and exposed for sale and sold by fluid volume.        (2)    Frozen yogurt shall be sold or offered for sale by weight, whether or not combined with other condiments, if the amount of the frozen yogurt to be purchased is:            (i)    Determined by the purchaser; and            (ii)    Dispensed by the purchaser.    (d)    If hand dipped, any of the items listed in subsection (c) of this section may be sold by weight, fluid volume, or the serving.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-313 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 3 - Regulation of Weights and Measures Generally|Section 11-313 - Flour, Cornmeal, and Hominy Grits

    When in package form, and when packed, possessed, offered, or exposed for sale or sold at retail, 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.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-314 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 3 - Regulation of Weights and Measures Generally|Section 11-314 - Berries and Small Fruits

    Berries and small fruits shall be offered and exposed for sale and sold by weight, or by measure in open containers having capacities of 1/2 pint, 1 pint, or 1 quart, dry measure. The labeling requirements of § 11–306 of this subtitle do not apply to these open containers.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-315 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 3 - Regulation of Weights and Measures Generally|Section 11-315 - Liquid Fuels

    (a)    All liquid fuel shall be sold by liquid measure or by net weight in accordance with the provisions of § 11–304 of this subtitle. Price lists of liquid fuel shall be posted or otherwise made available upon request.    (b)    Upon delivery of liquid fuel not in package form and in an amount greater than ten gallons in the case of sale by liquid measure, or 100 pounds in the case of sale by weight, a delivery ticket or written statement shall be delivered to the purchaser, either at the time of delivery or within a period mutually agreed upon in writing or otherwise between the vendor and the purchaser. The delivery ticket or a written statement shall have the following information clearly readable in ink or by means of other indelible marking equipment:        (1)    The name and address of the vendor;        (2)    The name and address of the purchaser;        (3)    The identity of the type of fuel comprising the delivery;        (4)    The unit price, that is, the price per gallon or per pound of the fuel delivered;        (5)    In the case of sale by liquid measure, the liquid volume of the delivery, together with any meter readings from which the liquid volume is computed, expressed in terms of the gallon and its binary or decimal subdivisions; and        (6)    In the case of sale by weight, the net weight of the delivery, together with any weighing scale readings from which the net weight is computed, expressed in terms of tons or pounds avoirdupois.    (c)    The provisions of subsection (b) of this section do not apply to deliveries of liquid fuel made on the premises of the vendor if the vendor is supplying the fuel tank of a motor vehicle, motorized equipment, aircraft, or watercraft. The requirement of  subsection (b)(4) of this section does not apply when the product is liquified petroleum gas, which is defined for the purpose of this subsection as a petroleum product composed predominately of propane, propylene, butane, isobutane, butylenes, or mixtures of those products, if the delivery ticket, written statement, or invoice states that the price list is available on request. A ticket or other written statement accompanying the delivery of any other liquid fuels and used only as a bill of lading or manifest is exempt from the requirement of subsection (b)(4) of this section if the ticket or written statement utilized as an invoice for payment indicates all of the information set forth in subsection (b) of this section.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-401 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 4 - Milk and Other Fluid Dairy Products|Section 11-401 - Definitions

    (a)    In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.    (b)    “Calibrate” means to determine the value of, to mark correctly, and, when appropriate, to correct elements of an indicating system or other device on a milk tank.    (c)    “Cooperative” means a corporation or association as defined in the Corporations and Associations Article. A cooperative is a producer and a purchaser within the provisions of this subtitle.    (d)    (1)    “Hauler” means any person who owns, leases or otherwise uses one or more mobile receiving stations and is engaged in transporting milk or other fluid dairy products.        (2)    “Hauler” includes any cooperative engaged in the activity of a hauler.        (3)    “Hauler” does not include:            (i)    Any agent or employee of the owner, lessee, or other user; or            (ii)    Any person receiving the transportation services of a mobile receiving station through its owner, lessee, or other user.    (e)    “Milk or other fluid dairy products” means the lacteal secretion obtained from a cow and any fluid component of the secretion, before any processing or manufacturing other than cream separation processing.    (f)    “Producer” means any person who owns, controls, or operates a dairy herd for the production of milk or other fluid dairy products to be sold or offered for sale.    (g)    “Purchaser” means the person who pays the producer or cooperative representing any producer for milk or other fluid dairy products.    (h)    “Sample” means the portion of a person’s shipment that may be used for an analysis of milk components that affects payment for the milk or other fluid dairy products.    (i)    (1)    “Test” means an official procedure, approved by the Association of Official Analytical Chemists or American Public Health Association as published in the latest edition of its official publication and adopted by the Secretary, which is used to determine the amount of any milk components in any sample of milk or other fluid dairy products that affects payment for the milk or other fluid dairy products.        (2)    “Test” includes the results of the analysis.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-402 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 4 - Milk and Other Fluid Dairy Products|Section 11-402 - Rules and Regulations

    The Secretary may adopt rules and regulations necessary to regulate receiving, weighing, measuring, sampling, and testing of milk or other fluid dairy products when the results may be used as a basis for payment for these products.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-404 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 4 - Milk and Other Fluid Dairy Products|Section 11-404 - Responsibility for Records of Weights, Measures, Samples and Tests

    A purchaser or hauler shall be responsible for all appropriate records pertaining to the weights, measures, samples, and tests which may be used as a basis for payment for milk or other fluid dairy products.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-405 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 4 - Milk and Other Fluid Dairy Products|Section 11-405 - License

    (a)    Every purchaser or hauler of milk or other fluid dairy products who is involved in the testing of samples shall have these operations performed only by individuals licensed by the Secretary.    (b)    Any person who calibrates a farm milk tank, other than the owner of the tank, first shall obtain a license from the Secretary.    (c)    Any individual required to obtain a license to calibrate farm milk tanks or test milk or other fluid dairy products shall apply to the Secretary and pay an examination fee. If the applicant satisfactorily passes an appropriate examination conducted by the Secretary, the applicant is entitled to receive the kind of license for which he qualifies upon the payment of a fee.    (d)    Every license is valid for the license year for which it is issued unless revoked or suspended. Each license may be renewed annually without examination upon application and payment of a renewal fee.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-406 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 4 - Milk and Other Fluid Dairy Products|Section 11-406 - Revocation or Suspension of Licenses

    The Secretary may revoke or suspend any license issued under the provisions of this subtitle upon satisfactory proof that the license holder has violated any provisions of this subtitle or any rules and regulations adopted under it. However, no license may be revoked or suspended until the holder is given a hearing by the Secretary after reasonable notice. If the license holder fails to appear at the hearing after notice and contrary to rules and regulations, the license may be suspended or revoked. This section does not limit the right of the Secretary to proceed as authorized by other sections of this title.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-407 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 4 - Milk and Other Fluid Dairy Products|Section 11-407 - Notice to Be Given by Purchaser to Producer; Records of Purchaser; Statements Provided by Hauler

    (a)    Every cooperative or other purchaser shall notify the producer of the results of any test and the basis of payment. The cooperative or other purchaser shall maintain records of the tests and payment in a manner specified by the Secretary.    (b)    Every hauler, upon receipt of milk or other fluid dairy products, shall provide immediately the producer with a written statement indicating the correct quantity received. He shall provide also the cooperative or other purchaser with a written quantity statement upon delivering the milk or other fluid dairy products. The statement provided to the producer and the cooperative or other purchaser shall contain other information as specified by the Secretary.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-408 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 4 - Milk and Other Fluid Dairy Products|Section 11-408 - Equipment

    (a)    When testing milk or other fluid dairy products, a person required to have a license under this subtitle may not use any testing equipment which does not conform to the specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 44, as amended, or the official publication of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists as amended, and which is not inspected, tested, and approved by the Secretary. The Secretary may charge a reasonable fee for each item of equipment inspected.    (b)    When a producer’s weighing or measuring device is used to determine the quantity affecting payment for milk or other fluid dairy products, the device and its use shall conform to the specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 44, as amended. These requirements shall remain in effect unless the Secretary modifies or rescinds the requirements, by rule or regulation.
MD. Agriculture Code Ann. §  11-409 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Agriculture|Title 11 - Weights and Measures|Subtitle 4 - Milk and Other Fluid Dairy Products|Section 11-409 - Samples

    (a)    Samples that may be used as a basis for payment shall be taken, maintained and tested in the manner and within the period of time specified by the Secretary.    (b)    A person may not alter a sample so that its test results will indicate lower or higher than the actual test results of the milk or other fluid dairy product from which it is taken.