Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 15 - MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Subtitle 03 - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES › Chapter 15.03.03 - Method of Sale of Commodities › Section 15.03.03.05 - Nonfood Products

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A.
				Coatings. Asphalt paints, coatings sold in a viscous state, and plastics shall
				be sold in terms of liquid measure.
B. Softwood Lumber.
(1) Softwood lumber applies to softwood
				boards, timbers, and dimension lumber that have been dressed on four sides, but
				may not apply to rough lumber, to lumber that has been matched, patterned, or
				shiplapped, or to lumber remanufactured or joined so as to have changed the
				form or identity, such as individual, assembled, or packaged millwork
				items.
(2) Definitions.
(a) "Boards" means lumber 1-1/4 inches or
				less in actual thickness and 1-1/2 or more inches in actual width. Boards less
				than 5-1/2 inches in actual width may be classified as strips.
(b) "Dimension lumber" means lumber from
				1-1/2 inches to, but not exceeding, 4-1/2 inches in actual thickness, and 1-1/2
				or more inches in actual width. Dimension lumber may be classified as framing,
				joists, planks, rafters, studs, small timbers, etc.
(c) "Dressed (surfaced) lumber" means lumber
				that has been dressed (or surfaced) for the purpose of attaining smoothness of
				surface and uniformity of size.
(d)
				"Grade" means the commercial designation assigned to lumber meeting
				specifications established by a nationally recognized grade rule writing
				organization.
(e) "Matched lumber"
				means lumber that has been worked with a tongue on one edge of each piece and a
				groove on the opposite edge to provide a close tongue-and-groove joint by
				fitting two pieces together. When end-matched, the tongue and groove are worked
				in the ends also.
(f) "Minimum
				dressed sizes (width and thickness)" means the standardized width and thickness
				at which lumber is dressed when manufactured in accordance with Table
				1.
(g) "Patterned lumber" means
				lumber that is shaped to a pattern or to a molded form, in addition to being
				dressed, matched, or shiplapped, or any combination of these
				workings.
(h) "Representation"
				means any advertisement, offering, invoice, or the like that pertains to the
				sale of lumber.
(i) "Rough lumber"
				means lumber that has not been dressed but which has been sawed, edged, and
				trimmed at least to the extent of showing saw marks in the wood on the four
				longitudinal surfaces of each piece for its overall length.
(j) "Shiplapped lumber" means lumber that has
				been worked or rabbeted on both edges of each piece to provide a close-lapped
				joint by fitting two pieces together.
(k) "Softwood lumber," for the purpose of
				this regulation, means lumber produced from the cedar, fir, hemlock, juniper,
				larch, pine, redwood, spruce, tamarack, and yew species groups of
				trees.
(l) "Species" means the
				commercial name assigned to a species of trees.
(m) "Species group" shall be the commercial
				name assigned to two or more individual species having similar
				characteristics.
(n) "Timbers"
				means lumber 4-1/2 or more inches in least actual dimension. Timber may be
				classified as beams, stringers, posts, caps, sills, girders, purlins,
				etc.
(3) Identity.
				Representations shall include a declaration of identity that specifies the
				grade or grades, species or species group, and whether the lumber is unseasoned
				(green) or dry.
(4) Quantity.
				Representations shall be in terms of the number of pieces, the minimum dressed
				width and thickness, the length of individual pieces or the lineal footage,
				except that:
(a) The use of nominal
				dimensions shall be allowed when used in conjunction with the required minimum
				dressed sizes and actual length;
(b) With respect to all invoices, a table of
				minimum dressed sizes may appear on the reverse side of the invoice, so long as
				appropriate reference to the table is prominently and conspicuously shown on
				the face of the invoice.
Table 1 Softwood Lumber Sizes
Minimum standard dressed sizes at the time of manufacture for
				  both unseasoned (green) and dry lumber.
ProductClassification(Nominal Size)
Minimum Dressed Sizes(See Note 2)
Unseasoned
Dry
Inches
Inches
Inches
Dimension Lumber
2 x4
1-9/16 x3-9/16
1-1/2 x3-1/2
2 x6
1-9/16 x5-5/8
1-1/2 x5-1/2
2 x8
1-9/16 x7-1/2
1-1/2 x7-1/4
2 x 10
1-9/16 x9-1/2
1-1/2 x9-1/4
2 x 12
1-9/16 x 11-1/2
1-1/2 x 11-1/4
(See Agency note 1)
Board Lumber
1 x4
25/32 x3-9/16
3/4 x3-1/2
1 x6
25/32 x5-5/8
3/4 x5-1/2
1 x8
25/32 x7-1/2
3/4 x7-1/4
1 x 10
25/32 x9-1/2
3/4 x9-1/4
1 x 12
25/32 x 11-1/2
3/4 x 11-1/4
Agency note 1. The dry thicknesses of nominal 3 inch and 4
				  inch lumber are 2-1/2 inches and 3-1/2 inches. Unseasoned thicknesses are
				  2-9/16 inches and 3-9/16 inches. Widths for these thicknesses are the same as
				  shown above.
Agency note 2. Dry lumber is defined as being 19 percent or
				  less in moisture content and unseasoned lumber as being over 19 percent
				  moisture content.