Chapter 01. Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices and Procedures for Testing Packaged Goods
Regulation .01 Specifications, Tolerances, and Technical Requirements for Commercial Weighing and Measuring Devices.LinkCopy Citation
The specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for commercial weighing and measuring devices used in the State are those adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures as published in National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 44, as amended, as provided under Agriculture Article, §11-203(c), Annotated Code of Maryland.
Regulation .02 Procedures for Testing the Net Contents of Packaged Goods.LinkCopy Citation
The procedures and statistical sampling techniques used by the Maryland Department of Agriculture to test packages for conformance with legal weights and measures standards in this State are those adopted by the National Conference on Weights and Measures as published in “NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Handbook 133, 2020 Edition, Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods", which is incorporated by reference.
Chapter annotations
Authority: Agriculture Article, §§11-203 and 11-206, Annotated Code of Maryland
History: Effective date: February 1, 1973
History: Regulation .01 amended effective January 7, 1991 (17:26 Md. R. 2977); July 20, 1992 (19:14 Md. R. 1285); June 7, 1993 (20:11 Md. R. 916); August 29, 1994 (21:17 Md. R. 1440); May 8, 1995 (22:9 Md. R. 647); August 26, 1996 (23:17 Md. R. 1248); May 19, 1997 (24:10 Md. R. 712); June 29, 1998 (25:13 Md. R. 996); October 2, 2000 (27:19 Md. R. 1727)
History: Regulation .02 adopted effective January 7, 1991 (17:26 Md. R. 2977)
History: Regulation .02 amended effective October 2, 2000 (27:19 Md. R. 1727); August 5, 2002 (29:15 Md. R. 1143); March 6, 2023 (50:4 Md. R. 122)